[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Suggestions

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:17:06PM +0000, Eric E Moore wrote:
> Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > As a maintainer: 
> >  - costs: some now and some in the future (patching for example)
> 
> could store images as base-64 encoded PNG's..  probably still smaller
> than a XBM.  Might introduce some additional library dependency (or
> just code to un-base-64 it).  Could do the same for wavs, or any other
> binary file.  Or could make something to un base-64 it a build
> dependency, and just use base-64 in CVS.

Suppose you have two files: foo.png and foo.png.base64. A person has
changed foo.png and want to send the changes to freeciv-dev. So
foo.png.base64 has to be created from foo.png. If on the other side I
got a patch which changes foo.png.base64 I want that foo.png is
updated. So you have to have two distinct conversation. One of the
sides has to do an extra conversion. This would be similar to autoconf
(if you change configure.in you have to run autoconf to get an
effect).

I don't know any other project which does something like this. This
doesn't mean it is a bad idea ... I'm just wondering.

        Raimar

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