[CF-Devel] savebed feature is done

[Michael Toennies]

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      Andreas Vogl wrote:
     
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      > - The feature can be disabled in "include/config.h", in case that
     
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      >   someone doesn´t like it. (Per default it is enabled)
     
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      > When there are no objections I´ll put it on cvs very soon.
     
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       This is a more generic note and just not to Andreas:
     
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       I know it has been the default for a long time to put various features in
     
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      config.h.  However, please try to also add a command line option
     
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      and not have
     
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      the code be compile time dependant (If this is already done in
     
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      this case, my
     
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      apologies).
     
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       When I check in the metaserver changes, I have also added a
     
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      'settings' file
     
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      which sets in lib which can be used to control most of this even
     
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      without command
     
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      line options.  Command line options still take precedence over
     
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      the settings
     
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      file.
     
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       I really want to try and get rid as much compile time dependent code as
     
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      possible.  This reduces bugs (as that seemingly unused function
     
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      that you delete
     
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      will now result in immediate linkage errors and not when the first time to
     
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      switch config.h finds the error), and also makes binary
     
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      distributions that much
     
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      more friendly/possible.
     
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       Right now, for many of the options, someone who grabs a binary package is
     
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      basically at the whim of whatever flags were used in config.h to
     
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      compile the
     
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      executable.
     
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       Having command line options/settings file also makes it easier to debug
     
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      problems with these non default behaviours - instead of having to
     
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      recompile the
     
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      code, just insert the appropriate run-time switch, and away you go.
     
     
All true.

The point is also, that we will get much more #ifdefs in the systems
modules:
If i convert the server code to windows. I want make it so of course, that
we have
one source for all systems.

I we do it right, we will have a pretty seperated source, so game changings
will not effect
the cross platfrom code.

Best way is, to seperate game code and modules totaly from "system code". I
don't look in the
server code so deeply at the moment but at most project which not start as
cross platform, it
should cost some work.

So, please, if you make changes now to the code hold in mind that it should
be
prepared to cross platform style.

MichToen