Wesnoth 1.13.5

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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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So it goes as follows: Every version of Wesnoth has it´s own install location (e.g. 1.12.4, 1.12.5, 1.13.1). Then you have a folder with addons, saved games and stuff for every release series (so one for 1.12, one for 1.13, and so forth). Therefore installations of the same series share that stuff, but not between different series. This never produced any problems for me so far, I think.

Getting an explanation on the Download page probably wouldn´t hurt though.
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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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You could also have multiple installations of the same series with different userdata dirs, though, at least on Windows (using a shortcut that passes the --userdata-dir= flag). Not sure if it's possible on OSX. I imagine Linux distros can do it somehow.
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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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My experience on linux has been that the userdata dir is automatically confiugred to be `~/.local/share/wesnoth/1.10` or `~.local/share/wesnoth/1.12`, etc. I also have a 1.13 directory, so I don't think that was created by a package, I think folder was created by the game itself when I ran it after compiling master.

I don't get `1.xx.yy` folders, only `1.xx` folders.

IIRC all patchlevel releases `1.xx.yy` are supposed to be compatible, and saved-games are supposed to work across e.g. `1.12.1`, `1.12.2`, etc.

And I guess add-ons are treated similarly, they are supposed to target the `1.xx` version. We don't have a `1.12.1`, `1.12.2`, `1.12.3` etc. add-on server, only a `1.12` addon server.

I would imagine that if for some reason you wanted to have multiple parallel installs for versions differing in patchlevel, you could configure a different userdata dir with cmake or scons maybe and do `make install`?

I never actually did that. Instead I just use the default configuration, and when I want to check out an old version, I just checkout that tag in git and rebuild. It only takes like 20 minutes maybe, and you won't have to reinstall all your addons when a new 1.13.x release is made. (I guess you could just copy the userdata dir after installing in most cases?)
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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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iceiceice wrote:would imagine that if for some reason you wanted to have multiple parallel installs for versions differing in patchlevel, you could configure a different userdata dir with cmake or scons maybe and do `make install`?
That's what I do, for scons install on linux:
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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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Well, you can pass as many options as you want to scons without having to do the --help[tt] and file edit dance — e.g. [c]scons version_suffix=whatever ccache=true cxxtool=some-non-default-compiler build=debug[/c]. Generally it’s going to do whatever it is told to unless something seems wrong, in which case it’ll visibly alert you at the start and probably quit. The point is that you really shouldn’t ever need to manually edit the config file.
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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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I know I am extremely late on this subject, but decided to also post that I am not a fan of the race and alignment icons in the new UI. I dislike the look of the icons and find that simple text conveys the message much better, as well as being more UMC friendly.

Also, when attempting to load a game, the window is extremely small compared to 1.12.6. This may be because I only had 3 saved games at the time, but still.
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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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There were a number of issues about dialog window sizes. Most of these should be fixed when 1.13.6 is tagged and released.

The Load dialog was especially troubling to me and is much better on 1.13.5+dev ...
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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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The load dialog's size reflects the number of saves installed. You have more saves in 1.12, so it appears larger.
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Re: Wesnoth 1.13.5

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When i try to start multiplayer scenario i can't unles i put [side] tag for each side in scenario file. Starting positions on map are set. I don't have this problem in stable version. It's bug or feature?
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