API changes at 2009-01-13

[TrueBrain]

In todays nightly (which runs in 17 hours), the Load() function is changed. It now is:

Load(version, data)

The 'version' was added. This indicates the version of your AI which made the save-data. Useful if you want to be able to load save-data of your older AIs.

Also introduced is 'CanLoadFromVersion(version)' in info.nut, which can return 'true' to indicate Load can handle the savedat for a given 'version'.

[El Duderino]

The NOAI framework is excellent! And I appreciate the awesome work, but I have a question.
Is it possible avoid breaking the NOAI API if it is not nessecarry? I mean... twice in two days? It means that all the published AI's have to be updated, which is likely not going to happen often and/or soon. At the moment only your admiralai works, as you have broken all the other ones.

I understand that NOAI is under active development, but for example this break could have easily have been avoided by adding a seperate load_version call instead of breaking 'load'


Thanks,
Remco

[Rubidium]

But that would keep AIs with 'flawed' behaviour running about. Once a stable release has been made there should be virtually no changes to the API anymore. It's just that now it hit trunk more people are testing stuff and thus finding more flaws.

[Zutty]

As an AI writer I appreciate the tireless efforts of our lovely devs

This is a good feature.