[Tilesathome] non-updating renderers

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

>> 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.

We can also introduce a config option to disable auto-updates and
which also disables tile uploads to tah.

Matthias