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Velusion said:
So let me get this strait:
1) It's really easy to back up files. You could create a simple batch file to do it and it would be easy to whip up a mod that would do it as well.
2) It's too complex for the designers to patch it into the game.
????? That line of reasoning doesn't make much sense.
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If you carefully look at why it's easy to back up files it will start to make sense. The simplest approach (at least in the eyes of Windows users) would use windows explorer. Windows explorer (and it's GUI in particular) is not that trivial and coding something similar (especially in a portable way) is a considerable effort. Other methods may use other tools (such as zip, awk, perl etc...). Once again recoding their functionality, or at least integrating with it (if it's available under LGPL) is a significant effort. Easiest approach is probably to provide some script similar to ones posted on this forum, but that would mean taking care of all installation issues to ensure that the correct version of correct package is installed on the target computer. So all together it's one major headache.
And besides, reinventing the wheel probably goes against developer's principles
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