As a configure-time option, Inkscape now supports loading SVG's from a remote URL via HTTP.
This is implemented using the GNOME VFS library. This is a library that Inkscape has not had a dependency on previously, so it's implemented as an optional dependency that is controlled during configuration via the --with-gnome-vfs flag.
In other words:
$ ./configure --with-gnome-vfs $ make $ src/inkscape http://openclipart.org/clipart//animals/bugs/butterfly_jonathan_dietr_01.svg
The file is loaded into memory and parsed directly, rather than saving to a temporary file, so it loads pretty fast.
Enjoy, Bryce
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote:
As a configure-time option, Inkscape now supports loading SVG's from a remote URL via HTTP.
This is very cool. Is there a reason that this isn't a default? I think that gnome-vfs is widely supported. And atleast standard file access should be available on Windows. I'd be happy with adding gnome-vfs as a dependency. I think that most everyone who has gtk+ installed, has gnome-vfs installed on their system.
--Ted
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:17:50PM -0500, ted@...11... wrote:
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote:
As a configure-time option, Inkscape now supports loading SVG's from a remote URL via HTTP.
This is very cool. Is there a reason that this isn't a default?
Yeah, I didn't want to make it a default until people had a chance to review it. I also agree that it's probably an easy dependency to add since everyone should already have it available (which is one of the reasons I picked it over other options), however since it's a new dependency I wanted to make sure everyone was ok with it before moving forward.
Fwiw, there is one bug found so far, that I'll fix this weekend. I'd appreciate it if others could test it and let me know if they spot any other issues before I make it default to on when the dependency is present.
Bryce
Bryce Harrington wrote:
Yeah, I didn't want to make it a default until people had a chance to review it. I also agree that it's probably an easy dependency to add since everyone should already have it available (which is one of the reasons I picked it over other options), however since it's a new dependency I wanted to make sure everyone was ok with it before moving forward.
Fwiw, there is one bug found so far, that I'll fix this weekend. I'd appreciate it if others could test it and let me know if they spot any other issues before I make it default to on when the dependency is present.
There is another possibility that you might look at. libxml2, when built with all the options, has HTTP and FTP support built in. I don't know if they are generally available, or are just for <!doctype> support. But it might be interesting to see.
Bob
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Bob Jamison wrote:
There is another possibility that you might look at. libxml2, when built with all the options, has HTTP and FTP support built in. I don't know if they are generally available, or are just for <!doctype> support. But it might be interesting to see.
Given the choice, I'd prefer to stay with gnome-vfs because it supports alot more than http and ftp. Also, it means that Inkscape can integrate better with the desktop in that it can open files when a user browses to a share.
--Ted
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