[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12302) New europe-200x100 map

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12302 >

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:58:51AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12302 >
> 
> Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
> > I'd still assume that there is a bug in the code that puts unset variables
> > to a non-default value (maybe missing inititalization).
> 
> You can look at the savegame code if you like.  I glanced at it.  For 
> backwards-compatability if some settings are not present it looks at 
> other settings.  Also the default value when loading games is usually 
> chosen to match the behavior before the option was present, not the new 
> default value.  This is to handle old savegames; it doesn't work too 
> well with scenarios.

Yes, thank you; one point: old savegames (1.14.2) do not work with 2.0, do
they?

Christian

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