[Freeciv-Dev] Re: backward compatability of saved games

[Marko Lindqvist <marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 As a general rule, I would suggest keeping savegame compatibility over 
just one release, maybe two. This way users can upgrade freeciv midgame 
when new release comes out. I don't think there is any real use for 
savegame compatibility further back. After each release we can just 
remove oldest backward compatibility hacks from savegame.c.
 So, IMHO, we should now remove compatibility code for savegames older 
than 1.14.0. I'd like to see 1.15.0 compatible with savegames from 
1.14.0 and 1.14.1, but if one time total break really is necessary, so 
be it. (remembering that things have tendency to become routine after 
initial, 'one time', acceptance)

 - Caz