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[KroolDeath]

Hmmm, I just took my turns under 2.12...

Krool

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Just a few points:

• The server is at 2.14. The current Version is on the welcome page, and that number is taken from the ouput of "dom2 --Version", so it is always up to date.
• Games will not automatically become 2.14 games. That will require a restart. So until the games are restarted, everything is as it always was (i.e. 2.12)
• There is no good upgrade policy. So unless I hear about a serius regression before I install a patch, I just do it. Sorry if anybody feel that they have been adversely affected. Think of it as a really huge random, global event

[Cainehill]

Ah. Cool - I forgot that the original executable's processes would keep running until HUPed or otherwise restarted.

Of course - this makes it difficult to know which Version a given game is running, unless you know it's been restarted. Or viewing battles with both the 2.12 and 2.14 executable, and seeing which appears more hallucinatory.

Thanks Esben!

[Gandalf Parker]

Esben Mose Hansen said:
There is no good upgrade policy. So unless I hear about a serius regression before I install a patch, I just do it. Sorry if anybody feel that they have been adversely affected. Think of it as a really huge random, global event

Hmmm [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon07.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon49.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Poison.gif[/img] (brain fart)
if each game has a seperate call to dom2 then if each upgrade was done as dom2v212 and dom2v213 then the game script could call the appropriate exe for that game until told otherwise...

that might be a pain to upgrade when the players DO decide to upgrade

[Cainehill]

Not necessarily. The web interface for each game already takes, and uses, a number of parameters that I presume are used by a shell script that calls the dom2 executable. Another flag could be added that specifies the Version, and the shell script would then call the right one.

That way, no extra work needed if an individual game upgrades - the game owner just changes the Version and restarts the game.

Of course - some extra work by Esben would be needed to implement this, and he's already done lots for the dominions community via his server and code.

Thanks again, Esben!

[KroolDeath]

Guys,

I've upgraded to 2.14, am I ok to play games that haven't been upgraded to that same Version on Esben's server? I did not make a separate executable and keep a 2.12 Version, although I suppose I could from the CD.

Please let me know. I really don't want to screw up anyone's games, just based upon yesterday's announcement and seeing that the server was 2.14, away I went.

Krool the utterly confused

[Alneyan]

The only problem with having a more recent Version than your game is that it may result in incorrect combat replays (the combat summary will still be correct however).

You should be able to download the 2.12 patch at its former location here, if you want to have a 2.12 executable as well.

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Yes, I probably could support two Versions at once. I just don't care to code for it. It's not the coding, it's the testing that deters me...

And again, I'm sorry I didn't make it clear what happened in the upgrade.