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.
File names in econfig need to be interpreted relative to configdir.
This wasn't the case everywhere for keys data and info.
Fix this by changing variables gamedir and infodir to hold absolute
names. Change builtindir likewise, for consistency. Store the values
from econfig in gamedir_conf, infodir_conf and builtindir_conf.
Uses new fnameat() to derive absolute names from possibly relative
ones.
xdump:
(gamestr): New member game_upd_disable.
(game_ca): Update accordingly.
(game_ctrl_update): New.
(disa, enab): Use it.
(updates_disabled): Rewrite and move to game.c
(disablefil): Remove.
(lndstr, plnstr, sctstr, shpstr): Change timestamp members lnd_access,
pln_access, sct_access, shp_access from real time (time_t) to ETUs
within a turn (short).
(land_ca, plane_ca, sect_ca, ship_ca): Update accordingly.
(build_ship, build_land, build_bridge, build_plane, build_tower)
(explore, check_trade, bsanct, takeover, takeover_ship)
(takeover_land): Use game_tick_to_now() instead of time() to update
the timestamp. Change check_trade(), takeover_ship(), takeover_land()
to do that only when MOB_ACCESS is enabled, for consistency.
(lupgr, supgr, pupgr, takeover_ship): Don't touch the timestamp where
mobility isn't touched either.
(sct_do_upd_mob, shp_do_upd_mob, lnd_do_upd_mob, pln_do_upd_mob): Use
game_tick_to_now() instead of increase_mob() to compute ETUs since
the timestamp and update the timestamp. Closes#1012699.
(increase_mob): Remove.
(mob_sect, mob_ship, mob_land, mob_plane): sct_do_upd_mob() & friends
no longer do the right thing at the update. Use game_reset_tick() and
pass its result directly to do_mob_sect() & friends. This is only
correct when argument is etu_per_update, which it always is. Remove
parameter. Callers changed.
(do_mob_sect, do_mob_ship, do_mob_land, do_mob_plane): Oops on
negative argument.
(mob_acc_globals, timestampfil, mobupdate, updating_mob)
(update_all_mob, timestamp_fixing, update_timestamps, mobility_check):
The mobupdate command was important to let deities manually
synchronize mobility updating with updates. That's no longer needed.
The code behind it is somewhat hairy and ugly, and updating it to work
with the Empire clock is just not worth it. Remove. Users changed.
(player_coms): Update accordingly.
(upda): Remove display of mobility updating state.
(mobility_init): No need to fix up mobility on startup, as the Empire
clock runs normally even when the server is down. Remove. Caller
changed.
(schedulefil): New.
(set_dirs, set_paths): Rename. Initialize schedulfil.
(read_schedule): New. Can read several updates, which will be used in
later changesets.
(update_time): Change to array. Will be used in later changesets.
(update_schedule_anchor): New.
(update_init): Initialize it.
(update_get_schedule): New.
(update_init): Call it to initialize update_time[].
(update_sched): Rewrite.
(update_forced, update_wanted): Replace.
(update_reschedule): New.
(main): Call it on SIGHUP to reload the schedule.
(update_trigger, update_force, force, player_coms): Drop force's
capability to schedule updates in the future, because it's not worth
the trouble to implement again. Deities can simply edit the schedule
file to schedule updates. Remove update_force() and
update_trigger()'s parameter.
(upda): Update for new scheduler. Take care to keep output the same
as far as possible, even though it's ugly, to avoid breaking clients.
(update_policy, adj_update, update_times, hourslop, blitz_time):
econfig keys removed.
(update_demand, UPD_DEMAND_NONE, UPD_DEMAND_SCHED, UPD_DEMAND_ASYNC)
(update_demandpolicy, UDP_NORMAL, UDP_TIMES, UDP_NORMAL, UDP_BLITZ)
(UDP_MAX, UDP_DEFAULT, UDDEM_TMCHECK, UDDEM_COMSET, UDDEM_DISABLE)
(UDDEM_MAX, UDDEM_DEFAULT): econfig key and values replaced. Users
changed. wantupd.h is now empty, remove.
(demand_check): External linkage.
(update_policy_check): Now pointless, remove.
(is_daytime_near, min_to_next_daytime, regular_update_time)
(scheduled_update_time, next_scheduled_time, updatetime)
(next_update_time, next_update_check_time): Unused, Remove.
(demand_check, demandupdatecheck): Move call of demand_update_time()
from demand_check(), which controls all demand updates, to
demandupdatecheck(), which controls only unscheduled ones. Fixes
update command not to lie about the next scheduled demand update.
(demandupdatecheck): Check updates_disabled() so that zdone no longer
claims to trigger an update when it can't.
player can send whatever he wants. Banning IPs is better done with a
packet filter. That leaves restricting deity IPs.
(privip): New econfig key to restrict deity IPs.
(may_play): Implement it.
(match_user): Unused, remove.
buil, show_bridge, show_tower, nullify_objects):
Remove NO_LCMS, NO_HCMS, and NO_OIL options, not used.
Functionality can be emulated by modifiying the characteristics files.
(emp_config): Use it when argument is NULL. This simplifies callers
except pconfig's main(), which now has to suppress reading the default
file. Also fix callers to check the return value. Previously, a typo
could easily start a grossly misconfigured program, with potentially
disastrous results.
(emp_config, print_config): Cope with km_type.
(worldxset, intset, floatset, optstrset, doubleset, longset): Unused,
remove.
(emp_config): Fail if specified file can't be read or contains errors.
Used to succeed always, returning RET_OK. RET_OK is not appropriate,
since this is not a command. Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.
Callers ignore failure at the moment. A missing or unreadable econfig
file used to be silently ignored. It is still ignored, but no longer
silently. It is questionable whether ignoring is wise, but that's
left for another day.
(emp_config): Improve diagnostic messages.
(set_option): Move diagnostics to caller.
(emp_config): Ignore leading whitespace in `#' comment lines.
(print_config): Simplify printing of km_comment.
(set_option): New parameter val, so it can set and clear options.
(delete_option): Remove.
(KM_ALLOC): Turn macro into enumeration constant.
(KM_INTERNAL): New.
(xdump, xdver): New version dump.
(keymatch, infodir, datadir, teldir, upfil, downfil, disablefil,
telfil, annfil, banfil, timestampfil, privname, privlog, update_times,
update_demandtimes, game_days, game_hours): Use plain char * instead
of s_char * for strings, void * for generic pointers.
