savegames and options.cfg

[tyran_nick]

I have noticed that after the introduction of the new yaml both options.cfg and savegames get rather messy. By messy I mean that they no longer have the nice order they used to have. For instance if you go in a savegame the order of the fields is everytime different, sometimes making it rather difficult to understand whats going on in there.
Has anybody else some experience with the same issue?

[SupSuper]

It's an implementation thing. YAML doesn't guarantee any order. yaml-cpp 0.3 used ordered maps, which happened to be consistently ordered (alphabetically). yaml-cpp 0.5 uses unordered maps, which are more efficient but don't have any particular order so seem to come out at random.

Neither of these is sorted "sensibly" really, yaml-cpp 0.3 just happened to be consistent, but there's not much we can do unless you wanna write some utilities to ignore the issue altogether.

[tyran_nick]

Thanks, that's helpful.
Now I understand what is going on with those files