Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I am not very familiar with the libungif and giflib packages. the imlib
instructions says one "or" the other.
Are there any conflicts if both packages are installed?
Is one preferable over the other, and if so, why?
-- Bruce
IIRC, libungif is lacks the formly patent protected LZW compression,
who's last effective date expired in mid 2005 (China, it expired late
2004 for the US), so it creates only uncompressed GIFs. It does
uncompress LZW since there was no patent on the decompresssion, where as
giflib does both compression and decompression. The giflib instructions
create symlinks for libungif compatibility. This is all from memory so
the exact details are a bit fuzzy. giflib is/was the way to go, so long
as it was kept to date with the libungif version, which hasn't been an
issue since 4.1.0b (again IIRC sometime in early/mid 2004?). All but
the dates are mentioned in the intro for libungif in the book.
-- DJ Lucas
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