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

[Karl-Ingo Friese <kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Karl-Ingo Friese 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).
> > > > 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).
>
> No the png2xpm transformation will only used if the host has no
> libpng.

Oh I see. If the maintainers like the idea of having support for two
different file formats, this would be a good solution.

Ingo

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Karl-Ingo Friese
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