[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9491) forward- and backward-compatability of savegames

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9491 >

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:13:22PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9491 >
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> New Freecivs should be able to load old savegames [1] 
> (backward-compatability).  But do old Freecivs need to be able to load 
> new savegames (forward-compatability)?

I don't think so.

- continue old game --> backward-compatability is enough
- get a savegame from sb --> just take the newest version
- development --> you use the newest cvs version anyway

Christian

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