I am not sure that I would refuse to load it completely.  I would
suggest popping up a warning window that says something like, "You are
attempting to load a save file from an incompatable version.
Continuing will likely cause Wesnoth to crash.
Continue? Yes/No."  I do like the idea overall.

John(Dfool)

On 4/26/07, Mark de Wever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With the backwards compatibility in the terrain system soon gone it's
> impossible to load 1.2 savegames in 1.3.2+svn. I want to add an option
> in wesconfig.h named MIN_SAVEGAME_VERSION. If the savegame is older
> than that version, Wesnoth will refuse to load it. So if min version is
> 1.3.1 it means that all versions before that will abort loading with an
> error. Version 1.3.0+svn is seen as version 1.3.0 so the extra suffix is
> ignored.
>
> I want to add this for features which break things big time and involving
> all savegames. I see no need in trying to load stuff of which we know that
> it won't work and might crash Wesnoth. (Smaller breakage or possible
> breakage we can still try to load.)
>
> Any objections against this feature or other suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew
>
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