[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Lean Freeciv

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:33:52AM -0700, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> --- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
> > 
>  
> How about a lean CVS snapshot? It will have only the english version,
> none of the various foreign language translations.Only the gtk client,
> with only one tileset included. That should cut down the size nicely.

No. It is of no use if you maintain a local CVS tree because the CVS
updates are small. If a release comes with only such a limited set of
features we have done a big step backwards. Feel free to provide your
leaned version of freeciv.

        Raimar

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