Re: geoinfo.db

Am Sonntag 28 Juni 2009 schrieb Andreas Putzo:
> May i suggest putting the script into the gpsdrive repository? Judging
> from the comments in the script, geoinfo.db is solely used by gpsdrive
> and thus, in my opinion, should be kept there.
it was in the gpsdrive repository some time ago.
the geoinfo stuff was developed for gpsdrive, but we thought, it would be a
good idea to put it (together with the icons) into the osm repository, in the
hope, that other applications might use it, too.

as this may be a good idea for achieving this, I never liked Joerg's decision
to move the geoinfo.db (which is an essential part of gpsdrive) oout to a
separate package...

> That way, cmake could add the map-icons as a "build-dependency" and
> create the geoinfo.db at build time.
this would be a good idea, but the geoinfo db doesn't change that much, that
we need to rebuild it every time...
it also needs the icons.xml file as source; but that one also belongs to the
icons...

we had a svn link to the osm repository some time ago; I don't know if this is
still present...

> I think that would be a much cleaner solution and, by theory, you are
> not bound to a particular icon set, but people are allowed to provide
> their own.
people aren't bound to some specific icon sets; although there are some
requirements, they have to meet...

> Another advantage might be, that gpsdrive wouldn't complain about the
> missing geoinfo.db after installation but show a meaningful error
> message at build time that a dependency is missing.
> If you don't oppose my idea i would try to prepare a patch to implement
> this.
>
hmm...
IMO the best would be, to create a package from the minimal-icons.tgz, and use
it as a required dependency to gpsdrive. this package could also be built
together with gpsdrive...



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