[Freeciv-Dev] Re: freeciv is big ...

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:02:40PM +0200, Karl-Ingo Friese wrote:
> 
> ... and this is meant literaly. The current CVS tardist takes
> more then 5 MB to download (and seriousely more when uncompressed).
> And even since we all know that HD space is cheap and the modems
> get faster each months, this still looks quite big.
> 
> Even if HD space gets cheaper each day; there is still a problem
> left that affects many freeciv users: quota.
> Out of curiousity I looked a little into this:
> 
> 282   ./doc
> 353   ./ai
> 4053  ./client
> 1028  ./common
> 6865  ./data
> 1368  ./server
> 6704  ./po
> 
> Obviousely the translations as well as the data directory contain the
> most space. A short look in data reveals
> 
> 1302  ./engels
> 233   ./scenario
> 615   ./misc
> 151   ./civ1
> 170   ./default
> 640   ./trident
> 3172  ./hires
> 151   ./civ2
> 149   ./nation
> 
> So the big killers here are the .xpm directories, especialy the hires.
> But even engels is not that small.
> 
> Two ideas:
> 
> a) Leave the engels tileset out of the main distribution. Maybe I am wrong
>    but I do not think that a significant percentage of the freeciv'lers
>    is using it anymore (personal opinion).
> b) Convert them to pngs.
>    Advantage: png compresseses image data about 30% smaller then gzip.
>               Plus: The installed version is smaller as well (right now
>               the freeciv data dir contains the .xpms after decompressing
>    Disadvtange: pngs require an additional library. xpms are more easy to
>               maintain

Which platforms have a working libpng?

We may also convert the xpms to pngs and bundle a png2xpm with
freeciv.

        Raimar

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