[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#12345) tileset madness

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12345 >

At ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/tilesets/ are many tilesets. 
Most of these are out-of-date and unmaintained.  A few have been updated 
for CVS.  There are lots and lots of tarballs and sub-directories; it's 
hard to tell what's what and updating them would be difficult.

I took all of these and imported most of them into the "tilesets" module 
on freeciv-test (http://freeciv-test.sf.net/).  The tarball of the 
current module is at http://freeciv.org/~jdorje/tilesets.tar.gz - unpack 
this directly into ~/.freeciv or elsewhere in your $FREECIV_PATH to use 
these tilesets).

I did not include the civ2gfx tileset here because it has a structure I 
don't understand, and lots of .exe files (unacceptable!).  I did not 
include trident, isotrident, macroisotrident, or isophex since these are 
all included with freeciv proper.  (Macroisotrident should be merged 
with isotrident here, and all should be updated from freeciv proper.)

Most of these tilesets are still not usable with 2.0.

I would like to see this module imported to freeciv.org.  IMO it should 
be called 'tilesets', and we should also have a 'soundsets' and 
'rulesets' modules for contributed soundsets and rulesets.  Alternately 
we could add all of these to the main freeciv module in the data/ 
directory; this would make maintaining them easier but make maintaining 
everything else in the data directory harder.

-jason