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i would venture a guess that this would come on the compiling end of things?
instead of having a dozen folders with hundreds of small files in them, what about having a dozen xip files? weather.xip, mplayer.xip, python.xip, screensavers.xip, etc...
it would cut down on ftp time considerably and allow for easy updating. i realise that some folders need to remain as folders. for the folders that are static, why not make them all xbox dlls? perhaps somebody could shed a light on the subject.
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wtf are you constantly uploading all that stuff?
i very rarely upload more than about 10 files at a time during an upgrade.
the major issue with having everything in a zip or whatever is loading performance. if the zip is storage only, then it might prove advantageous for some things such as skins which could be packaged.
visualisations is up to the authors of them to support it. it's only really g-force that has all those config files.
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and as jmarshall has already mentionned, there is no need to be sending visualizations/weather each time. those folders rarely change.
so, cut those out of your upload and you should have less to complain about right?
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now that milkdop has been ported :bowdown: i was wondering would it be possible for vis with many preset files to put all these into one zip file?
the vis would have to read it directly from the zip. i don't know whether this is possible?
but this would make renaming unnecessary, since only the zip must obey fatx filename conventions.
as a nice side effect transferring files via ftp would be speed up noticeably :d
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pike
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yep, this is already being looked into, so no award for this idea, hehe