[ENet-discuss] (resend) ENet wire protocol stability.

[Lee Salzman]

I haven't really had any reason to change it in quite
a while, mostly just the implementation. I'd definitely
let everyone know about it if the wire protocol was ever
in flux.

Lee

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:01:18PM +0000, Adam D. Moss wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've been an academic admirer of enet for
> a while, and now I'm finally about to take
> the plunge into creating enet bindings for
> my programs.  Very exciting.
> 
> I have a question though: how prone is ENet
> to incompatible changes at the wire level over
> time (and, to an extent, at the API level)?
> 
> I ask because I'm aware that ENet development is
> an ongoing process and I'd like to pick up any
> improvements and bugfixes that occur as time goes
> on, but I really want to avoid breaking network
> play for users with executables embedding mismatched
> ENet versions.
> 
> No developer likes having their hands tied w.r.t.
> breaking their own protocols in the interest of a
> better protocol but I was wondering how frequently
> the on-wire protocol of ENet has changed in the past.
> I get the impression that this is a very rare thing
> and big warnings will probably get posted to this list!
> 
> Thanks,
> --Adam
> 
>