Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-13 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:22:30 +0100 s...@mailless.org wrote: > ironically, I don't have imagemagick installed on any of my boxes, but > have netpbm on all. (but then I can use any of the numerous ppmto* and > pnmto* and pamto* to convert to whatever I need.) I don't blame you, imagemagick is a bea

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-13 Thread ssd
* FRIGN 2015-12-12 20:45 > The fun thing is: sent currently supports pbm as well when you run 2ff, > because > it internally calls imagemagick's "convert" in case it detects a file format > not handled by the native farbfeld tools. > This means that if you supply sent with a pbm file, it will run

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-13 Thread David Phillips
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 06:40:27AM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:26:34 +1300 > dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Valid observation, although this patch is about changing the intermediate > > format, not the input format. > > I know, but what argument can you give? I mean, this en

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-12 Thread FRIGN
On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:26:34 +1300 dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: > Valid observation, although this patch is about changing the intermediate > format, not the input format. I know, but what argument can you give? I mean, this entire thing is only based on spread- and team-arguments. The technical

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-12 Thread dbphillipsnz
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 08:45:49PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:59:33 +0100 > Markus Teich wrote: > > > no it will not, but as noted in the other mail you are welcome to push your > > patch to the wiki. > > The fun thing is: sent currently supports pbm as well when you run 2ff,

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-12 Thread FRIGN
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:59:33 +0100 Markus Teich wrote: > no it will not, but as noted in the other mail you are welcome to push your > patch to the wiki. The fun thing is: sent currently supports pbm as well when you run 2ff, because it internally calls imagemagick's "convert" in case it detects

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-11 Thread Matthew of Boswell
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:59:33 +0100 Markus Teich wrote: > Grant Mathews wrote: > > Aside from those points: would rewriting the patch to not use libnetpbm, > > but to use the Netpbm helpers instead, be acceptable? > > Heyho Grant, > > no it will not, but as noted in the other mail you are welc

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-11 Thread Markus Teich
Grant Mathews wrote: > Aside from those points: would rewriting the patch to not use libnetpbm, > but to use the Netpbm helpers instead, be acceptable? Heyho Grant, no it will not, but as noted in the other mail you are welcome to push your patch to the wiki. --Markus

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-11 Thread Markus Teich
Heyho Grant, Grant Mathews wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:39:49PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > > Netpbm is arguably almost more complex than BMP and not easy to handle. > > It's literally the top result when I search for the phrase "simplest image > format". So your world is limited by the first t

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-10 Thread Grant Mathews
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 01:30:52AM +0100, Markus Teich wrote: > sent with farbfeld uses a separate process instead of linking to a > library and is therefore more UNIXy and sucks less. This patch still does all the file conversion in a separate process, and sent still uses an external library rega

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-10 Thread Grant Mathews
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:39:49PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > Netpbm is arguably almost more complex than BMP and not easy to handle. It's literally the top result when I search for the phrase "simplest image format". I've written PPM loaders by hand in projects too small for a makefile. > We could di

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-10 Thread Markus Teich
FRIGN wrote: > __You need a library to handle it__ and it's not that much of a popular format > to justify installing a library for it. Heyho, like FRIGN pointed out correctly this patch would negate the effort and goal of the switch to farbfeld. sent with farbfeld uses a separate process instead

Re: [hackers] [sent] [PATCH 2/2] replace farbfeld with libnetpbm

2015-12-10 Thread FRIGN
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:56:38 -0800 Grant Mathews wrote: Hey Grant, > Since the PNM/PAM format already exist as a minimal intermediate > representation with a rich set of commandline tools to manipulate them, > use Netpbm to handle images. back to your desk, Grant, you've missed the purpose of fa