Re: [CF-maps] cfjavaeditor and map files

[Robin R. <el...@ta...>]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:13:48AM +0200, Wim Villerius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed (quite a while ago) that even the slightest modification
> (using cfjavaeditor) in a map file results in incredible big output when
> creating a diff against the original.
> 
> This suggests that there either is no standard or that there are several
> standards to write maps. 
> Is there a preferred style? And so, which is the preferred style? And is
> it easy to convert to the preferred style? And which editor uses the 
> 'correct' style? (etc. etc.)

Hi!

The 'correct' style is, as some developers said, the style that the
server uses. We wrote a script that 'normalizes' maps into this format,
so that diffs contain mostly only the changed parts.

The new map editor we wrote (named GCE, see http://cf.schmorp.de/editor.shtml)
uses the same format as the normalizer script.
The script can be found in the Crossfire perl module source:
http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/cf.schmorp.de/Crossfire/

The script:
http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/cf.schmorp.de/Crossfire/bin/cfmap-normalize?rev=1.1&view=auto

greetings,
   Robin (member of crossfire+ development team)

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