Data distribution ideas

[FFuser]

reece146, good point on the proxy server setting idea.

You demonstrate well the idea of how people will probably use a data manager if we had one. People could ignore/remove the data they aren't interested in and this would certainly save bandwidth in the long run.

What if for offline installs we provide a function to create a .zip file of the data directory? Then the user could simply copy the file to their offline computer, unzip it into their VDrift installation, and that's it. Those of you who have slow/no internet connection commonly, what do you think? Would that be a good solution for you?

I think I have a better idea:
Available cars and tracks are read out from sourcefile(s) (somewhere in svn or on cdrom depending on what is available) These media contains this cars/tracks and the user can select which one he does want to "download" (in case of cdrom copying to harddisk)
With this method someone could spread cdroms with all data without requiring that the user should install them all.
Another plus point: Other data distributers could set up their own servers (I f they dont want that their data is under GPL for example)

Edit: the data manager should be able to create such a source file (depending on what the user selected) and burn it on cdrom