On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 05:06, Peter Linnell wrote:
One more good reason for a single icon file: packaging.
One of the things which has helped to make my life easier is the sane way inkscape is setup as a source tarball and a well done configure script. This made making decent rpms miles easier.
You just undid your own argument, probably unwittingly.
You like Inkscape being set up as a source tarball and a well done configure script... how, prey tell, would splitting up an SVG doc alter this situation? Still one tarball. Check. Still sane configure script. Check. Am I missing something?
If you have spent half a night chasing down missing files (sometimes icons) and fixing broken makefiles trying to build an rpm - you'll understand completely ;)
Don't lose the files in the first place then they won't go missing. ;)
Seriously, though, you might spend half a night editting a giant SVG doc trying to track down the issue with a single icon, when it would be much easier if said icon was isolated in a single file. It goes both ways.