[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11805) Store chat and notify messages for later retrieval

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11805 >

Ed Overton wrote:

> [ Goal:  Make an event aware client ]
> 2) Update the server so that it can pass events with server-generated
> message text to event-capable clients.  For non-capable clients, the
> server should back off to the notify_* functions.

Seems reasonable.  But you really needn't worry about 
backwards-compatibility in the network.  Network compatibility was 
broken twice in the last two days; just adding a manditory cap should 
handle everything.

-jason