[Freeciv-Dev] Re: zlib compression

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 06:55:17PM +1100, David Pfitzner wrote:
> Lauri Tarkkala <ltarkkal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I tinkered with my freeciv-net* patches some more, and added compression
> > of all network traffic using zlib. 
> 
> I just note that currently zlib is optional for compiling freeciv.
> Would this make it mandatory?  (I guess could support uncompressed
> traffic to connections without zlib support, but that would seem 
> to defeat much of the purpose...)  If so, do people think thats ok?

If compression seriously improves the connection quality in practice,
it would seem desirable to me to make the ability for noncompressing
clients to connect a runtime server option.  (If zlib is available on
all supported platforms, this is not necessary.)

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Reinier