> No, we should distribute mods as normal folders when they are included in 
 > FreeCol itself.
> ZIP files should be used when distributing the mod in other places ... like 
> the forum. The advantage of having a ZIP file (instead of RAR or other 
> formats) is that you can just place the file in the mods directory without 
> unpacking (although there are some issues with that right now, as mentioned 
> in the bug report).
No worries I'll see about adding Mazim's mod (as a folder) into the 3rd party 
mod area soon then. :)


> JAVA 11 REQUIREMENT ISSUES:> The best solution for our users would be 
> offering separate installers where a minimized Java Runtime is included ... 
> and recommend those installers to people who don't know what Java is. I think 
> this would only be needed for Windows and macOs.
> The simplest approach is most likely building separate packages for Windows 
> and macOs rather than having a multi-platform installer. We should probably 
> change to platform specific installers instead of the Java-based on we are 
> currently using.
> This is definitely something we should fix before the 1.0 release of FreeCol.

Thank you Stian! That should help a lot of people. Should I create a ticket for 
this issue? Not sure if it's really a bug so maybe in the 'improvement 
requests' ticket area?

Blake  
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