Opinons needed: Possible change in map block serialization
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 08:03
This PR fixes occasional light bugs caused by the cooling of lava https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/4682 but comes at a cost:
"To introduce the new flags I had to increase the map block serialization version, this is why you can not play on your maps on other versions of Minetest after you opened them in this version.
Of course old clients still can play, just the server has to be new to be able to read the map."
If this PR is merged, once you open a world with a server you cannot then afterwards open that world with an older server. This includes singleplayer as that is a server and client running on one machine.
"To introduce the new flags I had to increase the map block serialization version, this is why you can not play on your maps on other versions of Minetest after you opened them in this version.
Of course old clients still can play, just the server has to be new to be able to read the map."
If this PR is merged, once you open a world with a server you cannot then afterwards open that world with an older server. This includes singleplayer as that is a server and client running on one machine.