30 Jul 13, 10:00AM
I keep on forgetting about peoples posts. I am sorry.
Cleaner, the reason for not including media is the fact that it is out of the scope of this project. I just repeated myself, so I'll explain a little more.
This map archive is only one part of my project, one aspect. Adding media is not part of the project as a whole. The project isn't designed to be a map hub, we already have that. That is akimbo.
Another part of this project is that everything in this map archive (or repository, I'll call it either probably) will be reachable by AC 1.2's autodl feature. Working alongside akimbo will probably make it aquire all the media it will need. Now I realize that I don't know how the autodl searches for missing packages, if it searches all added servers, or just the one with the best ping so I realize this might be a little troublesome.
If I wanted to mirror akimbo, I'd ask Lucas if he needed help. However, he already has a USA mirror, so he should be good.
About if people have maps and need to download the media separately: If they aren't using the autodl feature, they will need to. However if they are then akimbo servers should be queried automatically upon loading the map. Again, I'm not sure what happens when multiple package repositories exist and the required packages cannot be found on one.
Cleaner, the reason for not including media is the fact that it is out of the scope of this project. I just repeated myself, so I'll explain a little more.
This map archive is only one part of my project, one aspect. Adding media is not part of the project as a whole. The project isn't designed to be a map hub, we already have that. That is akimbo.
Another part of this project is that everything in this map archive (or repository, I'll call it either probably) will be reachable by AC 1.2's autodl feature. Working alongside akimbo will probably make it aquire all the media it will need. Now I realize that I don't know how the autodl searches for missing packages, if it searches all added servers, or just the one with the best ping so I realize this might be a little troublesome.
If I wanted to mirror akimbo, I'd ask Lucas if he needed help. However, he already has a USA mirror, so he should be good.
About if people have maps and need to download the media separately: If they aren't using the autodl feature, they will need to. However if they are then akimbo servers should be queried automatically upon loading the map. Again, I'm not sure what happens when multiple package repositories exist and the required packages cannot be found on one.