Re: saved games of 0.4.3 and 0.4.5 incompatible?

[The Fox <thefox@xxxxxxxx>]

This is completely agreeable. But when I load a game saved in 0.4.5 in 
current CVS version, the game segfaults after resolving combat. I 
don't know the cause but it doesn't crash when no combat takes place.

One of my saved games is at http://web.naex.sk/thefox/Revelation.sav.
gz , it's saved in the beginning of the turn. When ending a turn 
immediately the AI comes into play, if you attack with a unit, game 
crashes.

  Andrej


> We do try to keep saved games compatible between versions, and I'd 
even
> claim we mostly succeed. However, some changes make it impossible or 
at
> least unreasonably difficult to maintain this compatibility.
> 
> For example, in version 0.4.4 we removed one of the existing event 
types
> and replaced it by another, more powerful one. It was an event that 
was
> used in every single map we are shipping so we couldn't just let it 
slip
> and hope no one noticed. Another option would have been to keep the 
old
> code around but in such a case clean code without any obsolete cruft 
is
> much more important to me than keeping saved games compatible. CF 
is,
> after all, still only at 0.4, so everyone should expect things to 
break
> now and then. Or rather, you shouldn't expect it, but you shouldn't 
be
> suprised when it happens, either.
> 
> We don't break compatibility if there is no good reason, and I have
> sometimes held back incompatible changes for one or two revisions so
> that several of them could go in at once. But I'm not (yet) willing
> to declare the file format stable.
> 
> I can tell you, though, that 0.4.5 remains compatible with 0.4.4
> (so far) ;-)
> 
> Jens
> 
> 

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