From jon at radscan.com Sat Feb 12 19:18:43 2011 From: jon at radscan.com (Jon Trulson) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:18:43 -0700 (MST) Subject: [conquest] A heads up regarding current development Message-ID: I have been making some changes to the common block structure, and soon, will be making protocol changes that will break compatibility with currently available conquest servers. This is just a heads-up for those of you who track the current code in mercurial. There are no immediate release plans, so I think for the *vast* majority of you, you can probably just ignore this email. :) If you are only interested in the currently released and 'supported' conquest, you can check out and track that version by cloning the repo like so: hg clone -u conquest-8.5 http://conq.hg.sourceforge.net/hgroot/conq/conq conquest-8.5 In head (or default, in mercurial parlance), there are likely to be instabilities and protocol incompatibilities as development proceeds. Just FYI. I may run a 3rd test server here for those brave enough to try the bleeding edge when I am ready :) My goal with the new CB and protocol changes is to correct a lot of mistakes I made in implementing the current version, as well as provide/complete new functionality :) I would like to try to at least maintain backward compatibility with recording (.cqr) files if possible, and maybe provide some kind of conversion from the old CB format to the new one, once I've figured out how I want to new one to look. Anyway, happy communing! -- Jon Trulson mailto:jon at radscan.com The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.