Re: [Rails-devel] Additional Fix - Rails: Bugfix for 3448493 and 3448498

[Frederick W. <fre...@go...>]

Hi Stefan,

the editing was done directly in svg.

Even though the redundancy between the variants' svgs is not desirable, the
alternative of making the svg more complex or to let rails alter the basic
svg are not too convincing either. And for "normal" hand-made svgs, I doubt
that the file size will be as large as for the 18GA svgs (that were
definitely not hand-drawn natively in svg).

Furthermore, in the long term, I expect that for some 18xx games there will
be more than one backround map available (which will happen when the BGG
drawing geeks begin to turn their attention to rails). Therefore, rails
should handle svgs as a black box and not be too closely coupled to them.

Just my opinion...

Regards,
Frederick