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

[Karl-Ingo Friese <kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:

> > 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?

Unix, DOS, OS/2, Windows, Mac OS, BeOS, Amiga, etc.

(source http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html)

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

Yes. The disadvantags is that in this case the installed version
still contains the xpms (bad for people with quota).

Ingo

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Karl-Ingo Friese
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