[Freeciv-Dev] Re: loading compressed XPM files

[Benoit Hudson <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:16:49AM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> So the user is lost if freeciv is shipped with compressed xpms and the
> user doesn't have libz?! We have to make libz a prerequisite.

Ship with non-compressed; if --with-zlib is specified, compress.

> During the software distribute period (ftp server as a tar.gz) the
> software is compressed. Your change will only save space on a local
> installation. Hard-disks are cheap. You can use something like
> compressed ext2. You can also remove unwanted files by hand.

Some people have small quotas on said cheap big drives (i.e. students).  Is
there a place to put non-mainline patches?

        -- Benoît