Releases

[joevenzon]

I think some users will complain, and that's definitely a con. But think of the pros:

• removes license issues from releases so they can be packaged for GPL-only distributions (Debian, etc.)
  
• makes the release package much smaller
  
• provide some data that is known working and can be used as a reference for getting to the other cars up to par
  
• will make users go check out cars.vdrift.net

Don't forget, there are instructions on the wiki for getting cars and tracks from the data repo, and a list of both:
http://wiki.vdrift.net/List_of_cars
http://wiki.vdrift.net/List_of_tracks

The big con outweighs those pros. It's not acceptable to say "hey go find them and install them yourself, it's only a few steps and you only need to install an SVN client and they might not actually work anyway depending on if there have been data changes since the last release." If we really want to go after those pros, we should go down the path of the auto-updater.