[OSM-talk] Tiles at Home client update

[J.D. Schmidt]

D Tucny skrev:
> 
> That does seem wrong to me too...
> 
> Surely the tiles at home client should only allow for configuration of file
> locations, scope of rendering etc. Not anything that would allow any
> difference in output...

See my reply to Jochen, just posted a moment ago.

> 
> If the client won't run on a certain type of machine, then those machines
> shouldn't be able to contribute as long as the problem exists and that
> fixing the problem should be the priority rather than providing workarounds
> that affect the output.

Negative, since there isn't a big difference in output. See the reasons 
mentioned in my mail to Jochen. Examples will be put up on the Wiki in 
just a moment.

> 
> I'd also suggest that it would also be a good idea to ensure that the 
> client
> was released in archived up versions so people can be sure of having all 
> the
> files in a new release and that the server would refuse any attempts to
> upload or download from clients that are out of date, probably using
> major.minor versioning to differentiate between compatible and incompatible
> updates etc...

On that we agree, and AFAIU it is in the works, just not implemented 
serverside yet. Thats the reason why the client now has SVN revision 
numbers and a revision name.

J.D. "Dutch" Schmidt