[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Suggestions

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:10:14PM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> 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.

I still don't see it. My problem is that I can currently do a "cvs
diff -u" or a "patch -p0 <diff" and thats it. With binaries I either
have to save the second binary attachment or go to ftp.freeciv.org and
than have to do a "mv png data/...". The recently posted veteran patch
is an example of this.

        Raimar

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