On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:27:31 -0500
Madeline Book wrote:
> On 11/03/2009, new.york wrote:
> > Hello there!
> >
> > What is a difference between "trunk" branch and "S2_1" branch?
>
> Experimental and not completely finalized changes go to trunk only.
> The S2_1 branch has to stay backwards compatible with older 2.1
> clients, so usually only bug fixes are applied there. Lately I have
> also been porting basic multiplayer usability features from the 2.0
> warclient project to the S2_1 branch, so that users will be less
> inclined to make their own "warclients" for 2.1.
>
> > I am interesting because "trunk" branch have more nations than
> > "S2_1". When nations from "trunk" will be appears in "S2_1" or
> > maybe in "S2_2"? How it will be?
>
> Nations are actually a part of the ruleset, so any server operator can
> add them to his servers. However clients without those nation flag
> graphics will see question mark flags instead, which can be very
> annoying if there are many such nations. This is the reason the extra
> nations are not in the S2_1 branch.
I guess someday stable version of trunk will be realised with all
nations data files? And new version of server and client (2.2 or 2.3)
will be packaged with all flags and nations? Is it true?
Do you have approximate date when it will be?
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