[Tilesathome] non-updating renderers

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Maybe we should decouple the auto-update of styles from updating the
>> client.  Maybe we anly should auto-update the styles.  Then people who
>> disable the auto-update because of local modifications won't need to
>> do so.
> 
> If you plan to do that, please always keep in mind that people are using 
> tiles at home for the generation of differently styled local slippy maps as 
> well. In such a context the styles must not be updated.

This should already be possible with a custom layer config which can be
put into tilesAtHome.conf maybe requiring differently named layers which
get their stylesheets from completely different locations than the stock
t at h ones.

> It would also be wrong to assume that the running copy of t at h is 
> actually an SVN working copy, and it would be wrong to assume that the 
> user under which the program is running has write access to binaries or 
> styles. (I think this assumption is made at the moment, and nobody has 
> complained much, but that doesn't make it a sensible design decision.)

The client currently only tries to update in upload and loop modes, as
those are the ones designed to interact with the t at h server, where a
current svn version of the client is highly desirable.



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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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