A further thought occurs:
What's the smallest possible working flightgear package? I'd love to really play with updated versions of Flightgear, but the huge downloads are not very feasable on a 56k connection (and one phone line with other people wanting to also use it).
Immediate thoughts as to how to reduce the size (particularly for the installer version in Win32, next update, if its feasable):
data/scenery is has the potential to become quite large. I looked at the Fg 0.9.3 (installer exe, the one I have) installation and this has been improved from earlier base packages, which seemed to include the entire tile from 130n to 140n (or something like that, you get the idea).
This directory is just 5.6Mb uncompressed. You won't gain much here.
data/textures.high is 25mb. Are these textures used by default anywhere? If they're not, then why have them in there?
Off course they are. I wouldn't put that much time in creating them if they don't get used ...
data/data just has cloud info. Is this just 3d clouds? As a general armchair user of FG, I don't use much of anything beyond the defaults. Maybe this should be removed.
I agree this directory is a bit large. And I even think we are only using one .cld right now.
Erik
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