Follow-up Comment #1, patch #4783 (project freeciv):
> - savegame.c will be removed, dropping support for loading
> savegames older than those from freeciv-2.3
What's the motivation behind this? Just to reduce our maintenance burden?
Personally I haven't found maintaining savegame.c, nor fixing bugs in loading
old savegames, to be a massive drag. I guess it'll become a little more
tedious if we have three savegame backends.
Freeciv 2.3.0 was released a little over three years ago, and right now there
are still active communities using 2.3. I guess it'll be at least another year
or two before 3.0 (and this change) sees the light of day, but even so it
feels like it might be a bit soon.
Debian squeeze (aka oldstable), still just about security supported via
squeeze-lts, has Freeciv 2.2, so savefiles from squeeze won't be able to be
loaded into 3.0.
(Does this cut us off from loading savefiles from the warserver community into
standard Freeciv, or is that already impossible?)
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