Changeset 1269

Timestamp:

09/14/08 04:45:16 (3 months ago)

Author:

shawnw

Message:

Remove ancient 1.7.X->1.8.0 notes from UPGRADING

Files:

• 1.8.3/branches/devel/UPGRADING (modified) (1 diff)

1.8.3/branches/devel/UPGRADING

@@ -166 +166 @@
-versions. See the Guide for Gods.
-
-============================================================================
-
-IMPORTANT NOTES FOR THOSE UPGRADING TO 1.8.0 FROM 1.7.6:
-
-* Softcode gotchas:
-
-  * Wizards (other than God) and royalty are no longer treated as No_Pay
-    unless the No_Pay power is explicitly set on them, although they
-    can still give (themselves or others) as many pennies as they wish.
-    This helps stop runaway wizards in the queue (they'll run out of cash
-    like anyone else). To get the old behavior back, @power your admin
-    No_Pay. You probably want to @power any globals that use search(),
-    children(), mail*stats(), etc, No_Pay as well. 
-  * @desc can no longer be gotten remotely without privileges.
-    @desc on privileged objects can now be evaluated by mortals.
-  * @adisconnect is triggered on every disconnection, partial or full.
-    This mirrors the behavior of @aconnect. Use %1 (the number of
-    remaining connections) to distinguish between partial and full
-    disconnects in @adisconnect code.
-  * Players can no longer be set CHOWN_OK.  If you have existing CHOWN_OK
-    players, you probably want to unset this from them, or the results
-    will be confusing (they'll continue to appear to have the flag,
-    even though it won't be testable or settable or clearable; this is
-    desired behavior).
-  * New HEAVY admin flag, prevents an object from being teleported
-    by a mortal between two containers they own. Admin without this
-    flag CAN be teleported.
-
-* Hardcode/db/startup gotchas:
-  * After each @startup is enqueued (during startup or @restart/all),
-    we immediately run up to 5 queue cycles. This allows, e.g., God's
-    @startup to up to five levels of @dol/@tr/@switch/etc and still have
-    the queued code run ahead of other startups. This requires that you
-    keep God's dbref as #1. 
-  * netmush is now started with only a single argument - the path to
-    the configuration file. The error log file (typically game/netmush.log
-    is now configured in mush.cnf. 
-  * CHAT_SYSTEM option removed. If you don't want to use the chat system,
-    use restrict.cnf to disable @channel, @chat, etc.
-  * USE_MAILER and MAIL_ALIAS options removed. If you don't want to 
-    use the @mail or @malias systems, use restrict.cnf to disable
-    the associated commands.
-  * QUOTA, EMPTY_ATTRS, and FUNCTION_SIDE_EFFECTS options are now 
-    runtime options, instead of compile-time.
-  * SINGLE_LOGFILE option removed, and log filenames are now 
-    runtime options. You may now give the same name to multiple log
-    files and get a more fine-grained version of the same effect.
-  * src/Makefile is now autobuilt from src/Makefile.SH. IF you use
-    local hacks that require src/Makefile, this is likely to be a problem
-    for you. You'll want to start patching Makefile.SH instead.
-  * The new code can no longer read databases created by versions of Penn
-    before 1.7.5p0. If you need to do this, load it in 1.7.6, shutdown,
-    and use that database.
-  * PROFILING #define for use when profiling the code (surprise). This
-    just disables the CPU timer.
-  * help-like commands without arguments now use the command name
-    as the argument. E.g. 'news' now looks for topic 'news', instead of
-    'help'. If not found, we fall back on help.
-  * Mail messages now track not only the dbref of the sender but the
-    sender's creation time, so messages from dbrefs that have been
-    nuked and recreated can be distinguished from messages from the
-    original sender. This modifies the maildb and make it not usable
-    with older versions. All existing @mail is grandfathered in, and
-    can't be tracked this way.
-