I've been thinking possibility of freeciv-2.7 between freeciv-2.6 and freeciv-3.0. S2_7 would be branched from S2_6, some time after S2_6 npf (last freeze stage).
The idea of such a version would be providing some of the post-2.6 improvements before 3.0 as wait between freeciv-2.6 and freeciv-3.0 is likely to be long. As per our usual version numbering rules freeciv-2.7 would not need to be compatible with freeciv-2.6, except that it must be able to read old savegames and 2.6 rulesets. Some things that we may want to backport from TRUNK to S2_7: - Data format fixes that we are not able to do in 2.6 due to d3f - Network protocol fixes that we are not able to do in 2.6 due to npf - Dropping xaw-client and sdl-client - gtk3-client minimum gtk version bump (to 3.10) and improvements it allows - Bootstrap update (m4 file updates and such) - Compatibility loading of previous version rulesets (test it before 3.0 tries it) - Msys2 based Installer builds for Windows as official builds - New tilesets / rulesets - ML _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
