Unofficial client builds refuse to play on trunk servers

[Luke-Jr]

Without -DNOEXPIRE, unofficial 0.2.8 client builds refuse to connect to trunk servers citing an "old CVS build" or such.

[Manuel Moos (z-man)]

This is, to an extend, precisely the indended behavior of not compiling without -DNOEXPIRE. We can't guarantee compatibility of every unofficial build with every version. Lacking a proper branching-aware network version system, going by version ID difference is the only option there. However, current 0.2.8 builds do work with all trunk builds so far, so there should be no harm in upgrading the allowed version ID difference to include current trunk, but not more. 0.2.8.3 final will, of course, come with no such restriction.

[Manuel Moos (z-man)]

Scratch one of the negations in my last comment :)

[Luke-Jr (luke-jr)]

So why not let the (newer) server decide if it can handle the old client or not? It already does this, anyway.

I don't think it is good behaviour to have a brand new build self-reject as "too old".