[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2924) OK. the reorg patch has a bug. Help from a client expert?

[banjo <banjo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 00:00, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> banjo <banjo@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > would it be possible to pack the files in a tar.gz or .ar file
> > as a way of saving space ?
> 
> Then we're right back to making it difficult to contribute graphics.
> It would be a particular pain the butt for people contributing nations.

.ar files, yeah sure, but tar files ? 

$ tar -zxf ruleset.tgz
 edit ruleset/
$ tar -zcf ruleset.tgz ruleset && rm -rf ruleset

> One of the things the new organization gives us is the possibility of 
> speeding up startup by doing load-on-demand of individual sprites, rather
> than slurping them all in before the client comes up.  Packing them into 
> an archive file would lose that possibility.

$ tar -O -zxf ruleset.tgz ruleset/path/to/file

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