[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8570) Authentification should be compiled on default (Was: no auth for gtk2 client)

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8570 >

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:04:20PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> The client should always have support for authentication.  The server 
> does not have to.  So there should be no need to compile this server 
> file just to get client support.

I'm not sure where the hangup here is. As long as there has been
authentication in freeciv, the client has _always_ had auth support by
default. You never ever had to pass a configure option to get auth support
in the client. The server is what we're talking about here.

-mike