Why upgrade? I'm not a lawyer, but here's my take on the differences
to version 2:
* Software patents: better protection against abuse of patents to
prevent users from exercising the rights under the GPL. I doubt
we'll get hit with a patent suit, but it's a good move just on
general principles.
* License compatibility: compatible with more free licenses, i.e. can
"steal" more free software for use in Empire. I don't expect to steal
much, but it's nice to have the option.
* Definition of "source code": modernization of some details for today's
networked world, to make it easier to distribute the software. Not
really relevant to us now, as we normally distribute full source code.
* Tivoization: this is about putting GPL-licensed software in hardware,
then make the hardware refuse to run modified software. "Neat" trick
to effectively deny its users their rights under the GPL. Abuse was
"pioneered" by TiVo (popular digital video recorders). GPLv3 forbids
it. Unlikely to become a problem for us.
* Internationalization: more careful wording, to harden the license
outside the US. The lawyers tell us it better be done that way.
* License violations: friendlier way to deal with license violations.
This has come out of past experience enforcing the GPL.
* Additional permissions: Probably not relevant to us.
Also include myself in the list of principal authors.
supports priorities. Update synchronization used to rely on them,
which naturally worked only with LWP (#1504036). With that fixed, no
uses of priorities remained, but a minor bug did: players could starve
out threads with priorities below PP_PLAYER, i.e. delete_lostitems()
and player_kill_idle(). Closes#1458175:
(empth_create): Remove parameter prio. Callers changed. Also gets
rid of misleading comments in pthread.c and ntthread.c.
(PP_MAIN, PP_UPDATE, PP_SHUTDOWN, PP_SCHED, PP_TIMESTAMP, PP_PLAYER)
(PP_ACCEPT, PP_KILLIDLE): Remove.
(empth_init, empth_create) [EMPTH_LWP]: Pass priority 1.
(check_all_markets): No longer a thread entry point. Remove the
parameter. Remove *player setup. Don't terminate the thread when
done.
(market_update): Call check_all_markets() instead of running it in its
own thread. Set up *player for it.
(market_init): Create the fused update thread instead of the update
wait thread.
other. Ensure headers in include/ can be included in any order
(except for econfig-spec.h, which is special). New header types.h to
help avoid inclusion cycles. Sort include directives. Remove some
superflous includes.
Move assignment of hostaddr and hostname from player_new() to
player_accept(). This solves the necessary of adding the socket include
file to prototypes.h for player_new(). The socket include file creates
a namespace conflict for WIN32.
is somewhat stricter.
(is_wday_allowed, is_daytime_allowed, is_daytime_nar,
min_to_next_daytime): New.
(demand_update_time, scheduled_update_time, next_scheduled_time,
update_time, gamehours): Use them to replace kw_parse().
(kw_parse): No longer used, remove.
thread entrypoints:
(lwpSelect, shutdown_sequence): Parameters didn't match thread entry
point prototype.
(lwpEntryPoint): Arguments didn't match thread entry point prototype.
Change linkage of functions without prototype declaration to static
where possible.
Remove some superflous declarations, replace others by suitable
includes.
