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

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Karl-Ingo Friese <kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).

Obviously time for a freeciv poll on the website. Which tileset should be left
out? I agree with leaving out the engels tileset, more controversially
I think Freeciv should ship with only one tileset. The others can always
be downloaded later.

> > > 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.
>

Not such a disadvantage, libpng is on every platform Freeciv targets. Just
because it is an additional library is not good enough not to use it.
 
> (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).
>

Bad idea. Let's just go with using libpng.
 
> Ingo
> 
> -- 
> 
> Karl-Ingo Friese
> kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 


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