360 Version 0.9 Complete!

[joevenzon]

i propose getting rid of the scons files and modifying the installation instructions to have people checkout the data directory directly in /usr/share/games/vdrift

Well, personally I just run vdrift from a directory inside my /home, and have the data repository checked out under the vdrift directory... which is why I never notice when something is missing from scons install. For someone who is using the development version, I think this kind of arrangement (check out the data repos where you need it, instead of doing scons install all of the time) is fine. For an end user using a release, I don't think they should have to check out the data, it should be provided in some other way that doesn't come with all of the SVN baggage. I'm not sure what the best way to distribute the data for a release is, but there should probably be some choice for linux users as to where the data is installed. Bundling it with some sort of installer or even just providing the data in a bzip would be preferable, IMHO. I'm definitely open to thinking more about other alternatives. There was talk of a data manager application. Adapting something like OpenCDS (http://wiki.openfrag.org/wiki/OpenCDS_About) could work, too.

For the upcoming release I think we'll probably just have to go the route of having a bzip on sourceforge, and then provide instructions on how to get the data to where VDrift can find it.