Re: RFS: 0ad
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> Bear in mind that "main" packages over about 200M - source or binary - don't
> go in CD releases, only in DVD/BluRay and on network mirrors; I'm working on
> splitting openarena-data into more manageable pieces so it'll fit better.
> If the 0ad data is in a single large zip file you probably won't be able to
> do that, though.
We can easily split the data into multiple zip files - the engine will
load all that it finds, so just call them "public0.zip" and
"public1.zip" or whatever and install them into the same directory.
(The tricky bit is that they're uncompressed zip files, since that
makes it much better when the whole package is compressed for download
with gzip/lzma - it saves about 20-30MB compared to compressing an
already-compressed zip - and in the future we might reorder files
within the zip to improve startup performance, so we can't just use
standard zip tools.)
--
Philip Taylor
excors@gmail.com
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