lobby protocol updates

[aegis]

specifying engine and version in battles, so lobbies can support multiple versions of engines and multiple engines more seamlessly

battle code will be changed.
current commands:

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OPENBATTLE type natType password port maxplayers hashcode rank maphash {map} {title} {modname}
BATTLEOPENED BATTLE_ID type natType founder IP port maxplayers passworded rank maphash {map} {title} {modname}

new commands:

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OPENBATTLE type natType password port maxplayers hashcode rank maphash engine version {map} {title} {modname}
BATTLEOPENED BATTLE_ID type natType founder IP port maxplayers passworded rank maphash engine version {map} {title} {modname}

engine is a string with no spaces ( it can be turned into a "sentence" if we need )
version is a string, then
thank you rattle

[rattle]

Shouldn't version be a string as well, i.e. 0.77b1?

[insaneinside]

When, and on what servers, will these changes take effect? To which protocol version do they correspond? 0.36?

I'd also suggest purging the Spring version from the TASServer command, in light of these changes.

[aegis]

we would still need a system of automatically updating

maybe have a command pair for GETLATESTVERSION <engine>
which would reply with LATESTVERSION <engine> <version>
and then the client could REQUESTUPDATEFILE <engine> if it had an old version

[Licho]

Why would we need it? Since each game advertises its engine/version you dont need global version pushing..

[Peet]

Clientside handling of it would need to change to make updating optional, but removing it alltogether would be counterproductive.

[aegis]

I'll make the server use the old battle commands for versions of known clients not supporting multiple engines

so you guys can be lazy while I release a server

[AF]

This should help enormously with the management of nonSpring engines and games by allowing an effective way of determining them without resorting to kludges with the mod name.

[Licho]

You could also support custom data..
something like key=value,key2=value2 format.
It would be handy for things like ladders or advertising extra information about game and it would be future proof (no need to change server for every change)

[aegis]

I'll be gone for several hours

I have uberserver running for testing

The sooner tests are completed, the sooner we can release.

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