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I'm not convinced this is important. I doubt we'll make huge filesize savings via any of the methods mentioned above, except for converting TGA files to DDS, which is a hassle; and the Christmas release is only 300 MB, which isn't too big for decent broadband. It is too big for dial-up, but /anything/ above 100 MB is too big for dial-up, and I doubt we can realistically reduce the filesize down to a third. Changing priority to "low" on this basis. |
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Even for a single downloader it make a difference if you have 300 or 200 Mbyte, 1/3 less download time, 1/3 less diskspace, less time to unpack the mod etc etc. For the hoster, it makes a HUGE difference. F.i. my account has currently 80 Gbyte traffic limit, and this means I can either server 266 times 300 mbyte, or 400 times 200 mbyte. Apart from this, the release should be cleaned up as this is simple a manner of professionalism. And indeed, the original release contains already about 10% (!) needless data in a couple .svn directories. A cursory look showed that even more data (sounds and textures so on), can be left out. Most of the work on this will be done anyway as part of my release script, and when I go and fix the map. So, no matter what the priority is, I will work on this issue :) |
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Certainly the .svn folders can go, and if your release script can remove other unnecessary files as a side-effect then that's all well and good. Hence why I set it to "low priority" instead of "will not fix". :-) I just don't think it's the end of the world when we're already dealing with multiple-hundred-MB files, so in the scheme of things it's less important than e.g. the moss arrow + water bug. |
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Most of the files that are unnec. are now gone, including duplicates and sounds/textures we don't need. On my TODO is now converting a selected few textures from TGA to DDS. Not counting any _local.tga, and only counting anything over 1Mbyte of size, there are 136Mbyte in (in about 30 files) than could be converted. |
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Release happened, although the TGA=>DDS conversion didn't happen due to time-constraints. Something to look in for the next release. |
- Anonymous
