[crossfire] SVN revions in version
Alex Schultz
alex_sch at telus.net
Fri Oct 13 16:37:37 CDT 2006
Brendan Lally wrote:
> I'm not sure it is such a great idea to send the revision number to
> the metaserver, certainly not if the metaserver is going to push that
> information out to clients, in that case, someone who wished to be
> annoying could look for servers with revisions predating certain bug
> fixes or balance tweaks and abuse or exploit them.
Hmm, well I guess that is somewhat of an issue. What about having
./configure time option to make it very easy for server admins to decide
if they want the revision number included in the version string sent to
the metaserver?
Alex Schultz
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