I'm looking/thinking about the new metaserver information, as described at: http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/dev_todo:metaserver_improvements
As mentioned in that page, using URL/HTTP for the metaserver would seem to be the most scalable. But we need to decide on a library to use for that. I found neon installed on my linux system - must have been installed a dependency for something - that sort of suggests that it may be on a fair number of systems. There is also libwww. I'm sure there are others. So this is really just a question to see what is out there. I'd also suggest this handling if the library is missing: For the server, this is OK, unless the user has turned on the metaserver notification setting. If that is set, then program terminates with error - either install the library, or turn of metaserver notification. For client, maybe shouldn't be a fatal error? Or maybe it is a fatal error unless something is passed into configure (configure --no-metaserver or something) - it would seem that for most people, this is pretty core functionality, but there could be some that don't need it (own server, inside company firewalls, whatever) _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
