Since older builds of FRED parse the mission version as a float, the version can contain a maximum of one decimal point. These changes allow FRED and FSO to disregard the build number when loading, saving, or comparing versions.
There is also a small fix to qtfred's saving of the author field.
This adds a new graphics type for the Vulkan graphics API. All this does
is to create a vulkan instance and a presentation surface with the help
of SDL.
This allows to mark certain functions or virtvars to be declared as
"deprecated" starting with a specific engine version. What this means is
that a special message will be added to the documentation stating since
when the function is deprecated and can contain an optional message. The
actual enforcement of the deprecation depends on the target version of
the mod so that we can stay backwards compatible.
If the mod supports the version since when the function is deprecated,
it will not be added to the Lua state which means that it doesn't exist
for the calling script. If the targetted version is before the stated
version, the function will still be added to the Lua state.
As the first function to use this feature, I have deprecated
createParticle in the testing library and moved it to the graphics
library with a new name reflecting that it creates a persistent
particle. I also added the corresponding function for adding a
non-persistent particle.
This adds a small system for letting a mod specify which version of FSO
was designed for. That would allow us to introduce code which would
normally break backwards-compatibility by putting it in an if block
which checks if the mod supports the FSO version which ontroduced the
behavioral change.
There is currently no code which uses the new functions yet so I added a
few tests to verify that the options do what they are designed to do.
This fixes#1389.
BMagnu