[CF-Devel] Windows installer for server, bigworld & smallworld maps

Sun Oct 26 17:37:07 CST 2003

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       You can.

Thanks. I guess I make a 'windows' group?

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       Does the installer sit with the maps, or something that is seperate?  

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      Eg, would you just download the installer, that also includes the maps, 

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      or would you download the maps, and then download that installer to make 

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      life easier?

I made server & maps separate. I figured not everyone wanted bigworld maps, and 
for updating purposes it's easier to split.
So there are 3 files: server, bigworld maps, small world maps.

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       If the former (installer with maps), there are two concerns I have:

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      1) It staying up to date on sourceforge (as new map releases are made, 

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      who will continue to make new versions of that)

I made the installers with Nullsoft's installer, free software (nsis.sf.net).
Currently i made the nsi (script) files by hand, but i'm planning of doing 
something like a small perl script to take care of that for me (specially for maps).
I don't mind maintaining (not every day, of course :)) those releases (since 
i'll probably just have to run a script to update).
And the scripts can be put under CVS too.

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      2) actual space for the data.  Probably more sourceforge's problem than 

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      ours, but I don't know if they may have some policy on amount of space a 

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      project can use.

I have no idea of their policy, but i've seen projects with hundred of MB, i 
guess CF is small compared to others :).
Sizes for installers are:
* server, 2.66 MB
* smallworld maps, 4.38 MB
* bigworld maps, 19.4 MB

Nicolas 'Ryo'

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