Data distribution ideas

[joevenzon]

It's a cool idea, and it seems like it'd work, but it'd be veeery complicated to implement correctly. Does the svn update in the C library give you any sort of downloading status? The command-line svn tool doesn't, and when downloading a large file, it might be frustrating to not have a percentage bar....

Also, it seems to me like there would still be a need for a "full" package, so that people without internet connections or with slow connections could download all of the data on one computer, burn it to a CD, and take it home. Or, at least, download it for the entire day while doing something else instead of having to have VDrift open for the entire time it's downloading.

Thinking more about this, maybe there's not really much advantage to having this feature in-game. What about just having a minimal package plus a really nice web interface that allows people to browse and download select cars/tracks?