[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#11213) Making client headers compatible with C++

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11213 >

> [jdorje - Mon Dec 27 04:01:42 2004]:
> 
> > [fbriere@xxxxxxxxxxx - Fri Dec 17 00:33:32 2004]:
> 
> > If you want to discuss this amongst yourselves, it's fine by me.
> > However, I get the feeling you're expecting something from me, yet I
> > don't know what more I could say on this matter.
> 
> I'd like a patch for doc/HACKING to give guidelines for C++
> compatability.  We may discuss and edit the patch before committing of
> course.

And here's a patch.

-jason

Index: doc/HACKING
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RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/doc/HACKING,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 HACKING
--- doc/HACKING 9 Dec 2004 23:41:56 -0000       1.22
+++ doc/HACKING 31 Mar 2005 17:53:26 -0000
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
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 Basic
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-Freeciv is a client/server civilization style of game, written in C.
-The client is pretty dumb. Almost all calculations is performed on the
+Freeciv is a client/server civilization style of game.
+The client is pretty dumb. Almost all calculations are performed on the
 server.
 
 [It wasn't like this always. Originally more code was placed in the
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
 po: translations
 ai: the ai, later linked into the server.
 
+Freeciv is written in C.  Header files should be compatible with C++ so
+that C++ add-ons (particularly new clients) are possible.
+
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 Server
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