#203 Handling of large images, etc

[Jonathan Dushoff]

Right now, large images are handled like other large files by GPF: it assumes you don't want to display them. Don't know if that is ideal.

Also (I guess this belongs on the same ticket), large files go to a "link" page rather than a "download" page – if you tried to display it directly, presumably you would prefer the download.

Finally (still the same ticket?), I thought we had agreed that the default for display=link would be make=later, but it's make=now.

[Lee Worden]

1. yes.

2. yes, I think so.

3. do you have any trace of those conversations? I think it would be easier than asking you to review the reasoning for me. (Also, I don't believe I've implemented later yet, so we only have yes and no.)

[Jonathan Dushoff]

I remember them as verbal conversations. I don't think there's a lot of reasoning. The idea was just like the pdflink tags; if they're not being used now, we don't need to make them now unless the user specifically says so.

The current make=true is "really" make=now, and make=false is "really" later. The makefile default link is "never", we should also have an "always", I guess.

To be explicit, there are four possibilities (view with large tabstop) [reformatted - lw]:

Make Now? | Make Later? | Names | ~~~~~~~~~
--------- | ----------- | ----------------------- | ~~~~~~~~~
N | N | never, makefile-default | ~~~~~~~~~
N | Y | false, later | ~~~~~~~~~
Y | N | true, now | ~~~~~~~~~
Y | Y | always | ~~~~~~~~~

I think now, never, always, later are the clearest names.

[Lee Worden]

Would you happen to have examples of a big image and a big link-style file that I could use for testing?

[Lee Worden]

rec'd by email from Jonathan:

http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/ecometagenomics/index.php/Special:GetProjectFile?project=Manuscript&make=false&filename=fig3.comp.tif