[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14669) savegames and absent rulesets

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14669 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14669 >
> 
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
>>When I start civclient with a data/ directory which misses that ruleset and
>>load a savegame, then the tech tree shows up as 'default' and - I guess -
>>some more things will go wrong. No warning is given, even with civclient -d3
>>
>>If you start a civserver seperately and point it to adir w/o the
>>ruleset, connect a civclient to it, and load the game from the chat line,
>>also no warning is given, not even in the civserver -d 1
> 
> I am not sure what you are saying here, but if you load a savegame, then
> the savegame determines which ruleset is to be loaded. This is a
> necessary feature.

But if that ruleset isn't present (for instance, because the DATADIR is 
changed) bizarre things will happen.

-jason