[quake3-bugzilla] [Bug 4962] Protocol version 69 + legacy support

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https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4962

--- Comment #27 from Thilo Schulz <arny at ats.s.bawue.de> 2011-07-01 09:43:49 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #26)
> (In reply to comment #25)
> I suppose what I'm really asking for is: whichever way you go on this, I'd like
> it to be obvious to standalone game developers what they ought to do when they
> rebase onto a version of ioq3 with your new (variant of the) network protocol.

No worries, would be documented anyways.

> 0.7.7 to 0.8.x was an incompatible change (non-free files were deleted from
> pak0.pk3, IIRC), so from a compat point of view it's a different game: there's
> nothing you can add to 0.7.7 to turn it into 0.8.x. In the network-protocol-68
> world, this was done by incrementing the protocol cvar; "also increment
> com_newprotocol" would be fine as a solution.

Right, it's the prerogative of the respective developers to change the protocol
cvar to reflect this. Since with the proposed patch you can configure both
version numbers which are considered "legacy" and which are considered "new"
protocol, you can basically do whatever you want.

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