Support for 7zip, other formats

[Sakata]

Hello,

 

I was thinking about some of the hosting solutions' bandwidth/count limits, and I had a thought.  The 7zip library is open source and free for anyone to use, and has support for a fair number of compression formats.  I'm not sure if Java has a way to tap into non-java dll's, but if it does, I think this would make many server owners (as far as hosting the download of the pack) much, much happier when it comes to download traffic.  On average, my pack for example saves around 10MB if compressed with the highest compression level in 7zip.  For my pack, only a few people play it, but I do quite regular updating, and it would save the host an average of around 1.3GB if not more a month in bandwidth.  Larger servers would be able to save considerably more.

 

Again, I thank you for having this easy to use platform, and only hope for it to grow even stronger, which is why I made these suggestions.  Hopefully there are no technical limitations to this idea.

Edited February 11, 2014 by Sakata

[plowmanplow]

Or, you could implement the Solder API and only push the changed/updated/new mods to clients instead of your entire pack every time. Just a thought.

[Sakata]

plow, I haven't seen how this API works.  Google returns irrelevant stuff for me about soldering (electronics).  I'm not sure if there is a program that I can use that makes management of this easier, or really, any mention of it at all.  If you have a good link to read up on it, I'd love to find anything that could make managing this modpack easier.  Right now it's almost a part-time job XD

[planetguy]

A tutorial on installing Solder is >here.

 

The reason the Platform requires zip files is because Java has built-in support for zips and can access zip files as easily as files that aren't in archives.

Edited February 12, 2014 by planetguy

[Sakata]

Ahh, ok.  Thanks for that link.  Technically I could set that up, but our budget isn't exactly great, so I'm wondering, is there a way to use solder on some other (hopefully free) service?  I could easily set up a vhost for solder, but it would be on my home connection -- which isn't exactly brimming with upload bandwidth.

[Maxis010]

Ahh, ok.  Thanks for that link.  Technically I could set that up, but our budget isn't exactly great, so I'm wondering, is there a way to use solder on some other (hopefully free) service?  I could easily set up a vhost for solder, but it would be on my home connection -- which isn't exactly brimming with upload bandwidth.

Any host that supports cURL in PHP should be capable but they will likely frown on being used as a download server