Compression of SVG(Z)s in git repositories

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, September 02, 2014 16:50:35 Elias Probst wrote:
> On 09/02/2014 12:48 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 September 2014 12:27:11 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> >> On Monday, September 01, 2014 12:59:04 Elias Probst wrote:
> >> 
> >> Compressed SVG files are way faster to read (it's faster to decompress
> >> the
> >> data than to read it from disk). Also, the on-disk footprint is lower..
> >> 
> >> Both of these affect the runtime performance of Plasma.
> >
> > which is not an argument against storing them as SVG in the repository.
> > There  could be a pre-install task in CMake which compresses them.
> 
> Exactly. This might make sense to be placed in ECM to avoid duplication
> of this functionality all over the place.
> 
> > I think Elias suggestion makes sense on the git repository level, we just
> > need  to first put in place the CMake bits to ensure the installed files
> > are still svgz.
> 
> What I forgot to mention in my initial mail:
> This should be only enforced by the git push hook for newly added files,
> so a quick change to an existing file doesn't require one to rename it etc.

I wonder if the compression is simply using zip, or if one would need inkscape 
to compress the SVG to SVGZ. In the latter case, we'd have to add inkscape to 
our build requirements, which is not something that sounds desirable to me.
-- 
sebas

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