failures with maps and saved games from older versions with 0.8.22 (was: [glob2-devel] feedback on Globulation 2 (long, with many topics))

[Joe Wells]

Stéphane Magnenat <address@hidden> writes:

>> By the way, glob2 version 0.8.21 can't see any maps I've created with
>> glob2 version 0.8.22, and glob2 version 0.8.22 can't see any maps I've
>> created with glob2 versions 0.8.21 or 0.8.16.  The maps simply don't
>> show up in the list of available maps for editing or playing.  glob2
>> version 0.8.22 seems to have no trouble seeing the maps that came with
>> the 0.8.21 .deb, because those are the ones I'm using now.  It's just
>> the randomly generated maps that I created that seem incompatible.
>> Are they supposed to work across versions 0.8.16, 0.8.21, and/or
>> 0.8.22?
>
> forward compatibility is not supported but backward one should be, so it is
> probably a bug.

I can supply maps that illustrate the problem if anyone has trouble
reproducing this.

I have also discovered an old saved game started originally in 0.8.16,
used also with 0.8.21, which causes 0.8.22 to crash when it tries to
load it!  (This is a 512 by 512 map that I randomly generated.)

-- 
Joe