Re: [Flightgear-devel] substantial base package size increase

2011-09-11 Thread Vivian Meazza
Curt,

 

We could retire the old .png textures where these have been replaced by
.dds. That would more or less restore the old package size. However, unless
the issue is really pressing I would recommend waiting a while until it's
all thoroughly bedded in.

 

I also see that new aircraft have been added to fgdata. Tim requested a
while back that new aircraft should be placed in their own repo. Doing this
should prevent the data from growing significantly. We could move existing
aircraft to their own repos bit by bit which will significantly reduce the
size of fgdata.

 

Vivian

 

-Original Message-
From: Curtis Olson [mailto:curtol...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 10 September 2011 15:39
To: FlightGear developers discussions
Subject: [Flightgear-devel] substantial base package size increase

 

I just noticed when I pushed out the latest developer snapshot build that
our setup.exe size has grown from about 410 Mb to 500+ Mb.  I think (?) this
may be the new dds textures?  I'm not making a judgement, or calling for a
particular action here, but it might be worth thinking/discussing if there
is a way to push the size back down, or are we ok with 500Mb+ (1/2 a Gb) on
our setup.exe size?


Thanks,


Curt.
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[Flightgear-devel] substantial base package size increase

2011-09-10 Thread Curtis Olson
I just noticed when I pushed out the latest developer snapshot build that
our setup.exe size has grown from about 410 Mb to 500+ Mb.  I think (?) this
may be the new dds textures?  I'm not making a judgement, or calling for a
particular action here, but it might be worth thinking/discussing if there
is a way to push the size back down, or are we ok with 500Mb+ (1/2 a Gb) on
our setup.exe size?

Thanks,

Curt.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] substantial base package size increase

2011-09-10 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Curtis Olson wrote:

 I just noticed when I pushed out the latest developer snapshot build that
 our setup.exe size has grown from about 410 Mb to 500+ Mb.  I think (?) this
 may be the new dds textures?  I'm not making a judgement, or calling for a
 particular action here, but it might be worth thinking/discussing if there
 is a way to push the size back down, or are we ok with 500Mb+ (1/2 a Gb) on
 our setup.exe size?

You remember worrying about it when it crossed 10MB? :)

Does the installer tool have a way to build a web installer that will 
allow the initial download to be small and then pull data down as it 
installs it?  That would allow the introduction of some granularity in the 
installer as well - people could get the bits they want and not download 
the stuff they don't.

g.


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