[Kstars-devel] Compressing the binary data

[Akarsh Simha]

> > I thought that we should be compressing the binary data and
> > distributing it, and extracting it during install time. With bzip2, I
> > was able to achieve nearly 50% compression on the deepstars.dat file.
> >
> We definitely need to do this.  I'm a little uncomfortable even having  
> a 31MB file in the kdeedu module, but it's definitely better than  
> 74MB.  What if we do get objections to this filesize?  How many stars  
> are in shallowstars.dat?  We could simply make deepstars.dat a GHNS  
> file right from the start.  We could make a special page for it in the  
> startup wizard that offers 1-click installation of the deep catalog.

Yes. I think that's a really great idea. I'll look into this tomorrow.

> I'm pretty sure GHNS will automatically unzip the file.

That's great, too!

Regards
Akarsh
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