[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Suggestions

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:01:02AM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, 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.
> > 
> > Too freaky. Why don't we just put data/ in a separate cvs module? It has
> > its own mailing-list already...
> 
> And what does this solve?

People don't need to download the data/ to download the source. It makes
updates in the datafiles easier to manage.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa