Spring RTS Engine

Is there a reason to just break backwards compatibility like that? I cannot imagine a situation where looking in one dir instead of two for something would gain anything major but breakage. But then again i'm no c wizard.

It has been discussed before, why does it even matter to you, you do not have a project it effects.

Because i think breaking backwards compatibility just for the sake of doing so is a bad idea. Demonstrated perfectly here by the unnecessary need for a question from googlefrog.

I think that is the stance most of us have. I would not fault google for his question though, it does effect his work.

I don't think you read me correctly. I said the need for the question was unnecessary, not the question itself.

why was it unnecessary?

because the change that precipitated the need which required the question was unnecessary itself :)

it would have been interesting and a wonderfully game breaking if the mods dir was kept with a structure like:
mods/(for things like the feature pack or other modules that are not games or maps)
mods/games/
mods/maps/

I WOULD HAVE LOVED ALL THE TEARS

I don't really care one way or another, I think people bitching about the change are being stupid, it removes an extra directory.. then again, i think spring versions should all be in a /bin/version# sort of structure.

I still think google didn't do anything wrong persay. He just forgot the change was made in that version. If the mods dir wasn't used in their testing files the problem wouldn't have happened but people still want to use mods because that is how it's always been. Which is terrible logic.

smoth wrote: I don't really care one way or another, I think people bitching about the change are being stupid, it removes an extra directory.. then again, i think spring versions should all be in a /bin/version# sort of structure.

We can but dream.

smoth, it does not remove a directory. The engine alternatively also looking in mods dir does not mean it must be present.

Also, you still read that wrong.

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varikonniemi wrote:smoth, it does not remove a directory. The engine alternatively also looking in mods dir does not mean it must be present.

Also, you still read that wrong.

According to what abma posted.. it shouldn't

varikonniemi wrote:smoth, it does not remove a directory. The engine alternatively also looking in mods dir does not mean it must be present.

Also, you still read that wrong.

According to what abma posted.. it shouldn't