[kepler-dev] SVG file in Kepler

[Dan Higgins]

Just for the record, I support the idea of splitting the repository

Dan

Chad Berkley wrote:

> I noticed this too.  I think I proposed this months ago, but i'll do 
> it again...I think the repository should be split like this:
>
> kepler/dev
> kepler/docs
>
> All of the stuff you need to compile/run kepler would be in dev.  All 
> the extraneous stuff would be in docs.  Then you could do a 'cvs co 
> kepler/dev' and be a happy camper.
>
> chad
>
> Dan Higgins wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>     I just checked out a new copy of the head of Kepler CVS and 
>> wondered why it seemed to take longer than in the past.
>>
>>     One reason appears to be that we now have ~ 60 MB of SVG files! 
>> (in kepler\docs\dev\usability\graphics\svg\). This is the same size 
>> as the jar directory which has our huge collection of jars needed for 
>> Kepler!
>>
>>     Apparently, the SVG files are just the new icons suggested by 
>> Laura. But why are they so big? (about 500KB each). I thought vector 
>> graphic files were supposed to be compact. Are we going to ship all 
>> these with Kepler? Can we put them somewhere other than CVS so we 
>> don't have to copy them with every checkout?
>>
>> Dan
>>


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