Source code package release

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 19 Mar 2004 15:06

Could you, dear gods ... OTTD developers, also release the source code of a new binary release as a tar.gz or tar.bz2 (much better than zip) or something, please?

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 19 Mar 2004 19:11

Saskia wrote:Could you, dear gods ... OTTD developers, also release the source code of a new binary release as a tar.gz or tar.bz2 (much better than zip) or something, please?

Why not get the newest version from svn?

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 19 Mar 2004 20:56

Because I (and probably maaaany others) then had to fight with the checkout procedure every new release. I even don't have a SVN client ... and nearly every open source project has an stable code package, why not OTTD? It would be much more comfortable to download

Post by **orudge** » 20 Mar 2004 01:09

Maybe Ludde or someone can create a cron job that dumps the latest source to a file on the OpenTTD server daily or something?

mrf · Post by **mrf** » 20 Mar 2004 06:41

The update/build procedure is simple, no fighting required :

svn update
make
strgen

takes 30 secs.

tools like svn or cvs are worth learning how to use imo.

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 20 Mar 2004 14:16

Does SVN transfer the source compressed? I only have a modem - the uncompressed source is about 12 MB!

And where's the problem, if Ludde even releases a compiled binary, to release a source package ...

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 20 Mar 2004 14:40

Saskia wrote:Does SVN transfer the source compressed? I only have a modem - the uncompressed source is about 12 MB! And where's the problem, if Ludde even releases a compiled binary, to release a source package ...

That would be 29 minutes with 7 k/s (max for 56 k modem)
In theory you only have to do this once because svn only transfers modified files.

Post by **orudge** » 20 Mar 2004 17:53

12MB? Where do you get that value from?

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 20 Mar 2004 17:58

And a source tarball would be ca. two minutes. My connection quality is very bad, it only gets to max 5 Kb/s, mostly only 3 Kb/s

Post by **orudge** » 20 Mar 2004 18:04

Well, that's much the same as me. When I can, I'll see if I can [get someone to] set up a cron job to automatically generate a tarball every night.

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 20 Mar 2004 19:39

oTTD uncompressed is only about 5 megs. Excluding of course all compiled files, and needed TTDLX graphics.

Since most of this is text, it will be max 3 megs orso. Could be easily downloaded, even on a dialup

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 20 Mar 2004 19:45

Thanks Owen!

orudge wrote:12MB? Where do you get that value from?

Midnight Commander says 12051KB for 0.1., with binaries, but they are "only" 500KB together.

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » 20 Mar 2004 20:01

My entire sourcetree takes about 2.5 Megs...

I think you got all object files there as well. And the ttd executable takes up about 3 megs here, not 500 KB.

Anyway, enter a 'make clean' and remove the ttd file and see how much space it takes up then... Should be a lot less.

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 20 Mar 2004 21:13

orudge wrote:12MB? Where do you get that value from?

I just downloaded every sourcefile using svn. It created a folder of a total of 4.2 mb

Got it nearly instandly on my ADSL

Post by **orudge** » 20 Mar 2004 23:59

MadEgg wrote:I think you got all object files there as well. And the ttd executable takes up about 3 megs here, not 500 KB.

I take it that's a debug executable, then.

MadEgg · Post by **MadEgg** » 21 Mar 2004 02:38

Could be cause the 'Makefile' is set to debug mode automatically, not to release mode. Anyway, it's still huge

I don't care anyway, the conn is fast enoughl

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