server list (servercache.dat) corruption / incompatibility between fs and m9 builds

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This is an up-to-date fork of ioquake3 for UrbanTerror with changes from the ioUrbanTerror engine

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server list (servercache.dat) corruption / incompatibility between fs and m9 builds #21

Closed The-spiki closed 6 years ago

The-spiki commented 6 years ago

I've noticed that server list and favorites are being lost upon every switch between fs and m9 (100/104) builds.

Easy fix is running "get new list" for the current server, but it annoyed me more that favorites are lost when I'm switching from testing (m9) and playing for fun or competitions (fs)

Obviously this is not major / showstopper bug for adoption... but still, it is a "bug". Normally players wont be switching clients, so I guess it doesn't even have to be fixed. And I've scripted it on my end to copy the "correct" servercache.dat from backups into .q3a/q3ut4 folder when starting one or the other.

Anyway, small observation Linux file sizes are: m9 - 928K & fs - 800K Windows file sizes are: m9 - 892 KB & fs - 800 KB

mickael9 commented 6 years ago

I can't switch back to the old format since it only supports IPv4 addresses so this is what I'll do:

The server list will be saved to another name, servercachev2.dat
If there is no servercachev2.dat but servercache.dat exists, we'll import it
servercache.dat won't get overwritten

So this means:

users switching from legacy engines will have their server list/favorites imported on first run
afer that, both engines will have their own separate list