DevilutionX: Assets are included twice

[AJenbo]

Hi, I see you have both the assets and the devilutionx.mpq file included in this distribution.

The content of devilutionx.mpq is just the files form the assets folder so you actually do not need both. Removing one should help you get rid of a few MB :)

[schmurtzm]

Hi, in the official documentation they mention to get the release (which contains the "assets" folder) and the "devilutionx.mpq" so I'm not sure...
The "assets" is only 10MB anyway...

[AJenbo]

Sorry if the official documentation is not clear...:

But to be fair you are looking at the installation instructions and so fare as I understand you are doing a build from source. In which case the relevant section is here: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/blob/master/docs/building.md#if-you-want-to-build-the-devilutionxmpq-file-optional

To be clear, devilutionx.mpq is basically a zip file containing the assets folder. Which is more convenient then managing all the individual files.

The engine prefers devilutionx.mpq over the assets folder so the list of required files can be simplified to the following without affecting anyone:

Directory tree for "Diablo (DevilutionX)"
|
|   devilutionx
|   devilutionx.mpq
|   DIABDAT.MPQ
|   hellfire.mpq
|   hfmonk.mpq
|   hfmusic.mpq
|   hfvoice.mpq
|   _required_files.txt
|   
\---lib
        libSDL-1.2.so.0

(hellfire.mpq, hfmonk.mpq, hfmusic.mpq, hfvoice.mpq are only needed for enabling the Hellfire expansion)

[schmurtzm]

Ahah I see that you probably know what you are talking about 😄
The first releases were build but now that you propose Miyoo builds I take your official builds (so the asset folder is already here)

I will remove the assets folder and give better details in « required » files 😉

[AJenbo]

Let me know if I can be helpful