[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#12048) RFC: make zlib manditory

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12048 >

> [jdorje - Sat Jan 29 20:58:44 2005]:
> 
> We should make zlib manditory.  Zlib is required by libpng which is 
> required by every single GUI.  It is also required by the network 
> compression code (so it's pretty much manditory already, although I 
> don't know what would happen if you tried compiling without it).
> 
> Making it manditory allows us to compress the files in data/scenario/.

Hey check that out!

- zlib is manditory, configure will fail without it.

- None of the compression checks for the existence of any macros.

So, can we compress the scenario files?

-jason