Re: [Rails-devel] Autosave handling (was: Push request: 2 minor bug fixes (autosave handling and defaulting of game options))

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

And another answer to an older mail, refer to the bottom of the mail.

On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 07:59:30 pm Frederick Weld wrote:
> 
>     Fixed autosave functionality (handling of 18xx_autosave.xxx files)
> 
>     Target design is that
>     (1) new temp file (.tmp) is created
>     (2) former autosave (.rails) becomes the backup autosave (.rails.bak)
>     (3) temp file (.tmp) becomes the new autosave (.rails)
> 
>     Prior to the fix, the implementation did not process step (2)
> correctly, as backup autosaves were never dropped. This meant that
> autosave resulted in an error message and three files in the autosave
> folder (.tmp , .rails , .rails.bak). That's why autosave had never worked
> for me (and I doubt that it could have worked for others).

Thanks for fixing this. Autosave did work until (my own) refactoring of the 
save file processing, where I missed that bit. As it got not much love from 
the others (mostly because ftf-plays with Rails are the exception) I did not 
test that as I should have.

Stefan