Re: [glob2-devel] Windows Installer - Your thoughts

[Stéphane Magnenat]

On Friday 08 February 2008 17:46:53 Leo Wandersleb wrote:
> Hi Kieran,
>
> in my opinion the basic install should be playable both single player and
> multiplayer. If we have a nice intro-video, this should be included, too.
> no need to reduce size _by_leaving_things_out_ as long as we don't hit
> sizes we can't afford the servers for or that don't fit on CDs any more.
> None of the prior posts mentions *why* we should do such things.
>
> Yes, the package should always be compressed. There should be no need to
> separately compress each map within the package(?).

Well, that would spare players disk space.

> Instead of splitting up the "officia" content I hope to see soon a system
> where i can browse all map(campaign/sound-theme/grafix-theme)-headers
> people connected to yog have set to "public" and download them with one
> click. Best with a meta-data-db on the main yog server that stores extra
> info for each map-hash including a voting system ... (I'm dreaming again)

That would be great indeed ;-)

Have a nice week-end,

Steph

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