[CF-Devel] Hey, slow down a bit!

[Mark Wedel]

Preston Crow wrote:
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      >PS-Whats the policy for including new mapsets right now or within
     
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      >the stable releases? Mine should prolly be usable some time soon...
     
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      While I have no real say in the matter, it seems that it should be a
     
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      no-brainer to include more mapsets in the main distribution.  What should
     
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      be debated is when they're ready to be linked in to the standard maps.
     
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      For example, if I were to include my maps (which aren't ready by any
     
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      means), I would include:
     
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         /preston/README
     
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              A description of the maps, explanation that they're not linked in, and
     
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              instructions on how to link them in.
     
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         /preston/patch
     
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              A patch file that will update one of the main maps to link my maps in,
     
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              as explained in the README.
     
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      I sure wish the Grey Shield maps were included in that fashion.  (Actually,
     
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      I wish they were standard--they're better than a good number of the older
     
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      maps.)  Does anyone know where they are now?
     
     
 This is actually a reasonable idea.  I would suggest that manual directions for
including/linking in the map may be needed.

 If several people do this, it is possible that the patches included may
conflict with each other, which is why I suggest this.

 Someone else is taking care of maps as I recall, although with CVS, that isn't
need as much.  I would suggest that no new maps should probably be linked in to
active maps until after 1.0.

 But there is a question of why include stuff that is not ready yet?  The only
real reason I could see is if you hope other people will work/finish up the maps
(or if they're mostly ready - ie, need some debugging/balance issues).