as the title suggest I propose a map compression conversion from gzip to CSV. This will make map diffs more useful.
The downside of this change is that all clients before Mana 0.5.0 or Manaplus 1.1.2.20 will no longer be able to display maps. Ergo drop support for these clients will be dropped. On the upside this also means that the original manabot which is based on 0.0.29.1 will no longer be usable.
I recommend to anyone using 0.5.0 mana on Macs, please upgrade to the latest version of Manaplus Mac. Anyone else using mana 0.5.0 and before should update to the latest Mana client or more preferably to the latest Manaplus verison.
This will also open the possibility for a lot of merge conflicts for those who are currently working on existing maps. To assess the situation I propose anyone who is currently changing a map may put down here what s/he is editing and how close to the end of the development s/he is.
If the situation is rather stable and there are no large upcomming map changes we can safely convert the maps without risking too man merge conflicts:
Projects I am aware of:
- Wushin's rework of Tonori.
- Jaxad's rework of the area north east of Hurnscald.
with best regards
tux9th