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

["Ed Overton" <edoverton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

> [jdorje - Fri Mar 25 19:03:49 2005]:
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the info.  I figure I'll already have all that code
available, so providing that backwards compatibility should be the
simplest part of the whole deal.  If I were starting from scratch (or if
it somehow turns out to be difficult to implement), I'd probably go with
breaking things and using a cap.

Ed