Willthe content downloading we've seen be included in 1.6? My reason for asking is taht I started on a server repository script thingy some time ago and it would be ice to know if there is a reason to finish it

key functinality for the repository thing:

sentral repository redirection
different content for different mirrors possible, can therefor be used to redirect to servers only hosting 1 file, or to massive repositories if anyone has the means to host such a thing
repository/redirection server does _not_ need to keep any file content, and can therefore easlily be hosted at a limited bandwidth site
multiple cooperating redirection servers possible
mirror is easily set up with only webserver serving the files needed
slef-maintaining with mirror status check before redirection (check for temporary and permanent file archive status, will redirect to other mirror if primary/first chosen is unavalable)
written in plain php4 and does _not_ require a database

I'm alsoworking on:

redirection to geographically closest mirror, challenge here is to keep it free

I'm also considering:

possibly expanding to also handling FTP if that seems smart
hosting a local copy of all files on the redirection server in case all hosting mirrors for a file is unavalable

I think downloaded content should be placed in /data/downloads just so you know what came with nexuiz, what you downloaded, and what was auto-downloaded as there is a possiblity that the autodownloaded stuff isn't gpl and I wouldn't want to mix things up ("hey lemme copy something from that map, It's gpl'd right (assuming I ever figured out how to do that in gtkradiant ).

Also so stuff in the auto-downloaded pk3s can't supercede the main nexuiz pk3 or your own downloaded pk3s... man is that annnnoying in wolfinstine:ET.