wesnoth 1.4

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Wed Apr 2 12:28:52 UTC 2008


>>>>>> "JC" == Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> writes:
>
> JC> So it'd be preferable to leave it in rawhide, add something to the
> JC> release notes for F9, and call it done?
>
> Well, remember that this is my personal opinion, molded by experiences
> with one of my packages.  You as the maintainer need to weigh all of
> the issues; how much harm is done when a save game is invalidated?  In
> my case, users could have played for weeks.  If you lose a save of a
> single Wesnoth battle then there might not be such a significant
> problem.

True. Thinking back to my heavier gaming days, if I'd suddenly lost my
city in SimCity 2000, there would have been blood.

> You definitely want to get the new version into F9, though.  My
> upstream asked me to push a CVS snapshot just to get the save-breaking
> changes out previous to F9.

It's already in F9.  I'll think I'll just add something to the F9 release
notes, and leave the koji build for F8 to succumb to eventual garbage
collection.

Thanks everyone for the input!

>  - J<
>


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