Re: [jokosher-devel] SVG vs. PNG loading on startup

[Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com>]

On 8/31/06, Stuart Langridge <sil kryogenix org> wrote:
> I'd suggest that they're created during the package build process; I
> still think we should avoid having downloaders run "make" or similar
> before Jokosher will work.

There's no reason for the *user* to ever have to run make. One of the 
problems I found while playing with the SVGs was that the instrument dir 
in jokosher-art was horribly out of sync with the one in the code. There 
is not much point in having two copies and trying to keep them in sync 
when you can just put a make file in the jokosher-art dir and have it 
fill JonoEdit/trunk/Instruments/images with the png renderings.

Using this idea, whoever changes the SVGs would be responsible for 
running make before they commit. Or better yet, every once and a while 
someone just runs make, like how I run make in the locale dir to update 
the POT file from time to time.

Then packaging would simply be a process of running all the makes to 
make sure everything it up to date, and taking the needed files. There 
would be no extra build process scripts and the user would not be 
required to do anything -- even if they did a straight checkout from SVN.

Laszlo