James Turner writes: > > On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 02:12 pm, David Megginson wrote: > > > > We should also consider whether we want to compress the DAFIFT files. > > They take much more disk space uncompressed, but presumably CVS > > updates would be significantly faster, since they would exchange only > > deltas (or does the whole file come anyway?). > > I was assuming we wouldn't ship the DAFIFt files at all, but instead > use wget / PLIB's http client to pull them down automatically. But in > any case, I'm using Simgear's gzip_ifstream so just gziping the dafift > text files will work fine too.
We'll need to ship something by default so that when people download the base package, or if we make cd, or package for a distribution, everything is there to make the program work. Having a way (script?) to automatically upgrade the data is a nice idea though. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
