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

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Jason Short wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12048 >
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> > [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.
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> - None of the compression checks for the existence of any macros.
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> So, can we compress the scenario files?

Yes, with gzip -9.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa