RFC: Portability of reference images about makiegallery.jl HOT 6 CLOSED

Where do I get those ReferenceImages? I'm trying to compile the docs here but it fails exactly there.

Currently docs/make.jl:15 looks for it in mediapath = joinpath(homedir(), "ReferenceImages", "gallery")

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github.com/SimonDanisch/ReferenceImages

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Why not move the ReferenceImages to this repository?

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Because it's a huge repository with it's own release cycle. The release cycle already makes it a no-go to include it here, but if it wasn't, the other point is equally important: MakieGallery shouldn't be 340mb, since it can also used without actually comparing to the reference images!

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I came up to this repo because I wanted to add a few things to Makie Docs. But after a week trying to understand how Makie is organized, I still don't get it.

If I understood it:

• JuliaPlots/Makie.jl: the metapackage for ploting.
• JuliaPlots/MakieGallery.jl: a gallery of images and the documentation of Makie
• SimonDanisch/ReferenceImages: another gallery of images needed to build the documentation.

Why there's two repos for a gallery of examples?

My suggestion:

• move the docs to JuliaPlots/MakieDocs.jl
• refacor SimonDanisch/ReferenceImages so it creates the images when needed (e.g. with julia make.jl), this way the repo will not be 340 mb.
• Move Ref Images to the MakeDocs.jl repository, under a section/chapter Examples or Gallery, in a similar way of MatPlotLib's Gallery

This would make the life of random people wanting to help easier.

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