On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 18:18, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 14:55, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> The (large) patch at >>>> http://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/embedded_images_infra-v8.diff >>>> replaces all the XPM images in pgAdmin with PNG ones. This offers us >>>> two major advantages: >>>> >>>> 1) XPM images aren't supported by many graphics tools, and almost >>>> always require manual editing to fix the internal naming anyway. >>>> >>>> 2) XPM images don't support alpha transparency. >>>> >>>> The patch is a little complex, as it's not straightforward to embed >>>> PNG images at build time. Here's what it does: >>>> >>>> - Adds a new project, png2c, on which the pgAdmin project is dependent. >>>> - Adds a new build rule for .png files, which will cause them to be >>>> pre-processed with png2c, to create .pngc files which are C source >>>> code, containing the PNG data and some accessor functions and macros. >>> >>> Didn't we get rid of the beerware license in postgresql, to make >>> corporate lawyers happy? Are you sure it's a good idea to introduce it >>> to pgadmin here? >> >> I don't see why not. It doesn't *require* us to do anything. It just >> says *if we think* it's worth it, we *can* buy him a beer. > > Yes. > > It was removed from postgresql because of potential concerns from > *lawyers*. Don't expect them to be *logical*.
Whose lawyers? Ones from companies that insist their staff include confidentiality clauses on emails to public mailing lists by any chance? Certainly not postgresql.org lawyers. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
