[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3516) Save files to large and redundant

["Baumans" <baumans@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Johansson" <admerik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#3516) Save files to large and redundant 


> 
> The save files needs to have a better format, e.g. My save file is 5MB 
> it compresses to 400KB with gzip and 160KB with bzip2, a factor of 32x 
> for compression is ridiculus. Surely there is something that can be 
> done..
> 
> If you are going to a binary protocol perhaps a binary savefile format 
> as well, perhaps diffs can be used in some nice way.

If the program compresses them anyway, what does it matter?
> 
>