[OSM-talk] Tiles at Home client update

[OJW]

Could some people have a chat with Dutch and ask if they can help with the 
technical problem, of bezier curves and Math::Vec failing on the 
AMD-64/Gentoo system.  I'm a bit worried that the only person who knows the 
details is being distracted by debate, especially if it's critical of someone 
who actually did a whole load of work to implement something cool.  Technical 
help might be more useful if anyone can offer it.

Personally, I'm happy to have non-curved renderers contributing for another 
week or so, unless someone can link to a particularly awful example of how 
they fail to joinup.   I've opened an RFC as to whether we should keep curves 
or not - comments on the talk page:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/tiles@home/RFC


In tiles at home, it's easy enough to add a line identifying weird configuration 
options, it would be:
#-----------------------------------------------------------
if($Config{NoBezierOrWhateverItsCalled}) {
	$Config{ClientVersion} .= "_nobezier";
}
#-----------------------------------------------------------
...which will inform the server, by sending "version=Bangkok_nobezier", in 
case we decide to filter it later.


In general, we do want to keep output the same across multiple clients, which 
is why a technical solution to the beziers problem would be really useful...

Regards,

OJW