[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9529) Patch: remove draw_diagonal_roads option

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9529 >

Jason Short wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9529 >
> 
> This patch removes the draw_diagonal_roads client option.  It is just 
> clutter.  The impact on the user (by having to glance past a useless 
> option) is probably worse than that on the code (of having to support 
> this useless option).

Background: this option was added in this commit to client/optiondlg.c:

revision 1.13
date: 1999/01/11 07:24:43;  author: freeciv;  state: Exp;  lines: +16 -0
xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Added a new client option to turn display of diagonal roads on or off.

it was later moved to client/gui-xaw/optiondlg.c (and probably cloned 
into other guis) before being merged into client/options.c.  Quite a 
trail...

I can find no explanation of why this option would ever be useful.  I 
suppose it makes drawing slightly faster, but that's about it.

jason