[Tilesathome] Batik and forking

[Sebastian Spaeth]

hi Jiri, while I am reshuffling the t at h client code, I was noticing some clumsy workarounds with regards to forking and batik.

tilesGen.pl:
437 	         # compress before fork so we don't get temp files mangled.
438 		         # Workaround for batik support.

This prevents us from compressing the files in the background, which would be nice and make the code simpler too. What is the exact reason?

When we are here, the direcotory has been moved once anyway, so all temporary files are better written by now. So something is wrong if this is needed.

Can we fix batik to write it's temporary files before we are at the compression part?

Thanks,
spaetz