Compression of SVG(Z)s in git repositories

[Milian Wolff]

On Wednesday 03 September 2014 13:35:00 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> 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.

SVGZ is just a gzipped .svg file: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics#Compression


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