[Catalyst-dev] RFC: Catalyst::Helper::Graphics

J. Shirley jshirley at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 03:30:39 GMT 2006


Hey all,
I'm working on creating Catalyst::Helper::Graphics to contain some
nice ready-made graphics.  I figure we can add things in this package
to operate merely as convenience for developers.

The first step is just an AJAX activity indicator that zamolxes
created based on the Catalyst logo.

I'm just thinking that it would dump every image in
"root/static/images" --  comments/questions/criticisms?

I put the package on my own public svn repo, so please take a look at
it and if you guys think it should go into the main Cat repo I'm happy
to check it in there.  I'd like to get this pushed to CPAN as soon as
possible, so I can get the screencasts done for the advent calendar.

Trac View: http://code.toeat.com/dev/browser/Catalyst-Helper-Graphics
SVN Checkout: http://code.toeat.com/repo/Catalyst-Helper-Graphics

It is somewhat hackish how it packs the images in, though.  I'm
somewhat clueless of the build system on how to hitch in code to do
what "pack_images.pl" does when someone runs "perl Makefile.PL" -- if
anybody has any ideas how to put that step in the code cleanly, I'd be
happy to update/accept patches.

(Also, I don't have permissions to the Catalyst repo to create this
dir, so if you guys want it in Catalyst/trunk someone will have to
create Catalyst-Helper-Graphics, and then give me permission to that
dir... *nudges castaway*)

Thanks all, hope this is useful.

-J

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