[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9173) rulesets and connection dialog

["Jason Short" <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9173 >


> Given that we now have a read command, wouldn't it be a good idea to move
> the ".serv" files into the ruleset directories, like you said, and then
> reference them from the ruleset, instead of vice versa.  Couldn't the
> ruleset loading use the same system as the read command to read the serv
> file automatically?  I think it would make more sense to have rulesetdir
> actually load the complete ruleset, instead of loading most of the rules,
> and having the rest in a ".serv" file - it would be more self-contained,
> that way.

The problem is the ruleset is only read when the game starts, while the
.serv files will actually change some server variables.  This should
happen in pregame so that the player will see the effect of it.

jason