On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Rob Kendrick wrote: > It is not insignificant on embedded targets (such as the ones we work > with), and the dependency on libmng has already got us excluded from > lightweight Linux distributions as we're the only program that uses > it. Without libmng, NetSurf has no esoteric runtime library > dependencies at all. > > The way Daniel did it was to allow for either - you can still use MNG > if you want (and still use libpng at the same time.)
You're right, and I support having the option. I just want MNG to remain on by default as it was. Qt depends on libmng so it's not really "esoteric". > You say yourself it's not useful, because nobody uses them - plus it > exposes us to security issues. We support other things that are rare. It is useful to anyone who needs to view one. Libmng has no known security issues. I remain mystified by the enthusiasm. What did MNGs do to you? Which feature will land in your sights next? (I don't mean just Rob.) James -- James Bursa, NetSurf developer http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
