[CF-Devel] [crossfire-cvs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net: [Crossfire-cvs] CVS update: client]

[Michael Toennies]

Please give me a more detailed note of your checksum changes mark,
when you are ready with them, so i can put them also in the
dxclient in.

Michael


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      Bob Tanner wrote:
     
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      > > Date: Wednesday January 31, 2001 @ 22:31
     
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      > > Author:       cvs
     
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      > > Update of /home/cvs/CVS/client
     
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      > > In directory boltzmann.eecs.berkeley.edu:/tmp/cvs-serv24312
     
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      > Last set of commits on the client?
     
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       For tonight.  But I'm working on some new changes so that the
     
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      client & server
     
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      checksums the image data when the client caches them, and if the clients
     
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      checksum differs from the server, it also requests a new image.
     
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      That will be
     
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      done sometime soon.
     
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       But as I think about this, this creates an interesting scenario.
     
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       Suppose two
     
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      servers - one up to date, the other a bit behind with some older images.
     
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       You connect to the up to date server, and the client updates the relevant
     
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      images.  You then connect to the old server, the checksums
     
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      differ, so it once
     
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      again grabs the images. You now go to the new server again, and
     
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      once again it
     
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      grabs the new images.
     
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       I don't have an elegant solution to that problem.  But presuming
     
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      most of the
     
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      servers you play on are up to date, this should still be better
     
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      than right now
     
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      where you can have really old images sitting around.
     
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       I'll probably also add some option like so that it doesn't
     
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      download the new
     
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      images even if the checksums differ.
     
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