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Should we break backward compatibility of the TMW client, for the sake of us all?

Regards.

To give more background into this, she wants a bit saner of a registration and login procedure. This would break backwards compatibility.

I want progress, not stagnation under cover of backward compatibility.

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Could you be more descriptive of what you'd like to see?

I want to e. g. see end of spamminng the server with characters? Which I hear is fixed since several months, and you lazy bums do nothing to pull it into "production" release? Or maybe you think I am a free slave to sit and cut kiddies on the fw?

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Platyna wrote:I want to e. g. see end of spamminng the server with characters? Which I hear is fixed since several months, and you lazy bums do nothing to pull it into "production" release? Or maybe you think I am a free slave to sit and cut kiddies on the fw?

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We don't keep track of changes made in eAthena SVN. Feel free to do so yourself and notify us of relevant changes.

I thought that developers are to keep changelogs, naive me.

And I was referring to Madcamel's patches which were submitted to you and are kept on hold since several months because of "backward compatibility" of the TMW client (for all euphemisms I have heard for laziness, this one is definitely most epic one).

And I know I am feel free to do all the work no one else does, so then they can come and take over it when it is ready. ;-) Problem is I am not buying it anymore.

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Platyna wrote:I thought that developers are to keep changelogs, naive me.

What does that have to do with anything?

Platyna wrote:And I was referring to Madcamel's patches which were submitted to you and are kept on hold since several months because of "backward compatibility" of the TMW client (for all euphemisms I have heard for laziness, this one is definitely most epic one).

Give me an example. I have not seen any patches from him that would break compatibility with current clients. Note that we can easily drop support for versions less than 0.0.28.1, and likely will soon.

Then make yourself a bottle of coffee, patch the client and release the changes. eAthena DoS-es are known issues since months. It would be alot more constructive than spending time on IRC to bug me and tell me how evil I am. ;-)

And it is not that you should drop support for < 28.1, you should drop support for any client that is being obsoleted by the new release - for your and the majority of players comfort - like the most of games does.

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Platyna wrote:Then make yourself a bottle of coffee, patch the client and release the changes. eAthena DoS-es are known issues since months. It would be alot more constructive than spending time on IRC to bug me and tell me how evil I am.

And it is not that you should drop support for < 28.1, you should drop support for any client that is being obsoleted by the new release - for your and the majority of players comfort - like the most of games does.

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That's why we do it. If we drop support for < 0.0.28, then we can use number input in scripts, fix the rules dialog to have the right characters, instead of the approximation that older clients required, and more.

Then do so, what stops you?

Regards.

Since nobody pays the project I would say don't care about Linux users and break backwards compatibility! - Windows has something called .exe and you can easily update with that.

So Ubuntu users would be back in the game starting with the release 10.04.

Life is about choices.

We should be able to provide packages for 9.04 and 9.10.

Rotonen wrote:So Ubuntu users would be back in the game starting with the release 10.04.

Life is about choices.

We are not going to save the world - it is not our fault that Ubuntu does not provide minor updates like all other distributions do.

Regards.