[MapQuery] Directory layout + external libs in Git repo

[Christian Wygoda]

My personal workspace definitely will use local libs, I'm way to often on a
train... :) If I have to have a separate directory for such demos, I'd be
happy with it for now. Altough I'd put it in gitignore. Of course, once
there will be a downloadable tarball/zip from a nice mapQuery website the
included demos _must_ work out of the box after the download. As for offline
maps - maybe we should gather something for a nice demo area including
Tilesets, GML, KML, etc.? I find too often that relying on online services
fires back when these services move or are offline.

As for resources (css, images) - everything we need to provide ourselves -
e.g. can't be taken from jQuery UI like a nice wrench icon for a configure
button - should live inside the src folder. Probably one css file
(mapquery.css?) with sections for each widget and all images inside a
src/images folder?

Offline demo maps could live inside demo/data/...

How does that sound?

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Anne Blankert <anne.blankert at geodan.nl>wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> About allowing offline work: then there should also be a data directory
> for offline maps?
> My idea was that DEMO's could have an online reference, WORK files not
> necessarily.
> In a train it will also be difficult to download the libs for local use.
> In case you have taken the trouble of downloading the libs before
> entering the train, you could also consider changing the reference to
> the offline libs in the demos?
>
> Somewhere in the future there should be a mapquery  website that
> includes the demo's online. Once those are available, there would be no
> need for downloaded demo's that work out of the box.
>
> Another thing:
> Some of the widgets to be will probably need (default) icons or other
> images. Where will these be stored?
>
> Anne
>
> On 11/12/2010 2:26 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 11/12/2010 12:29 PM, Anne Blankert wrote:
> >>  In the newly proposed and improved directory layout, the demo's now
> >> reference external libs like <script src="../lib/...></script>
> >> I believe it is a good thing if demo's work out of the box, no
> >> additional readme's, install.txt or conversions of .sh to .bat,
> >> downloads etc.
> >>
> >> Is there a good reason for the demo's not to reference online libraries?
> >>
> >> So instead of:
> >>   <script src="../lib/openlayers/OpenLayers.js"
> >> type="text/javascript"></script>
> >>   <script src="../lib/jquery/jquery-1.4.3.js"
> >> type="text/javascript"></script>
> >>   <script src="../lib/jquery/ui/jquery-ui.js"
> >> type="text/javascript"></script>
> >>
> >> Maybe use:
> >> <script type="text/javascript"
> >> src="http://openlayers.org/api/2.10/OpenLayers.js"></script>
> >> <script type="text/javascript"
> >> src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js
> "></script>
> >> <script type="text/javascript"
> >> src="
> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.6/jquery-ui.min.js
> "></script>
> >>
> >> ?
> >>
> >> From the version numbers in the path names to the libs, users can see
> >> with wich version of the external libs MapQuery is supposed to work.
> >>
> >> Anne
> >>
> > I'm not sure about it. I know, often demos need an internet connection
> > (e.g. for a WMS), though I'd like to get them work offline as well. We
> > could use static files as baselayer (as TMS e.g.) and have them work
> > completely offline.
> >
> > I had the situation that I wanted to do some MapQuery/OpenLayers coding
> > in the train, an the best resource are the demos. But without internet
> > they are not that useful.
> >
> > Therefore I prefer the bundle version (and not referencing the JS libs
> > through the web). You only need to download it once and you are set.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Volker
>
>
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