Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Re: XCode 2.1

[Alexander S. <ast...@it...>]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Br'fin wrote:

> Note to ourselves. Now is probably a good time to serialize saved  
> files since I didn't already do that. (My bad for thinking that  
> transferring saved files tween Mac and anything else wouldn't be  
> supported and now having it cause future problems transferring  
> tween Macs)
>
> Given the lack of foresight, and with the note that existing M2  
> saved games were never supported, just M2 films. When I code new  
> serialized saved games, do I...
>     1. ...avoid all support for existing 0.3 saved games
>     2. ...acknowledge and don't run existing 0.3 saved games
>     3. ...acknowledge and support older 0.3 saved games as well as  
> the new ones?
>
> I admit the spread of AM is potentially low enough that we could  
> get away with 1.
>
> -Jeremy Parsons
> http://alephmodular.sourceforge.net/

Is there something extremely convenient (like a version field) in the  
file format? If there is, 3 would be the best way; otherwise, I don't  
think it would be easy enough to justify not going with 1.