<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39441 >
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:49:55PM -0700, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > The other way, 2.1 => 2.0 would be "reverse" compatibility. I have no > interest in retrofitting old versions to read newer versions. hmm. there has been a somewhat concerted effort in the past to make savegames both backwards and forwards compatible. That was the point of savegame capabilities and a lot of thought before making any changes to the savegame format. Retrofitting previous versions is pointless I agree. > Indeed, 2.1 doesn't save map.l lines, so 2.0 will exit with error. I've had my head in the sand for the past year or so I grant, but this was necessary for what reason? > We should be able to read old savegames, but not those that are > completely incompatible. AFAIK, the current cutoff is 1.14.x. This shouldn't be the case AFAIK. I recall that there was a compatibility break in Jan 2001... M _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
