Re: Shapes

[Edheldil <dia001 eowyn cz>]

Steffen Macke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > * Send the shapes directly (in addition to the list).
> > * Attach them to a bugzilla entry
> > * Include sample diagram in Dia format
>
> I forgot the most important point: State your licensing terms (As Dia
> and the "other" shapes are GPL, I would prefer to use the GPL)..
>
> So a zip or tarball containing sheet, shapes, example diagram in *.dia format
> and the GPL COPYING file should speed up the process of including your shapes
> in the Dia Shape Repository.

Hi,

thank you for your answer. I have added COPYING to the FTP directory, 
all is under GPL. I would add it to the archives as well, but that 
brings another question:

What should be the structure and packaging of distributed shape 
archives? I am these days tinkering with a tool to install resources 
(images, clipart, fonts, etc...) from repositories and found out how 
much is uniformness important for this kind of a tool :).

The "problem" with adding a screenshot and an example diagram to a shape 
archive is that I expect some users to install the archive from my FTP 
and that would mean those files get saved to user's ~/.dia as well, as I 
suspect that users regard shape archives as packages instead of just 
random collections of files (at least I more or less do).

IMO it would be beneficial to formally define correct shape archive and 
add it to the docs for creating new shapes.

For example:
 - the format is zip containing:
     ./sheets/<SHEETNAME>.sheet
     ./shapes/......
     ./examples/...
     ./README.<SHEETNAME>
     ....

Just tell me whether I should add COPYING and other files directly to 
the archives at http://www.eowyn.cz/dia/

Cheers,
Jarda Benkovsky