Mike Sullivan wrote:
> so just a quick question - is sfw really the best place for this? I know > sfw used to have things like tiff, png, and jpg but they long ago moved > to jds, so I'd more expect to see libmng go there. I would hate > to get this into sfw then in a few months waste a bunch of time > coordinating a move to jds and dealing with possible issues. Happy to move it elsewhere (if anyone agrees to adopt it). > oh and I see it understands GIF - is that something we can bundle > now? I just remember that being a problem before, but I can't remember > if it was a patent issue or that we had to use libungif (which > is on the ccd - ah maybe it's compressed gif's that are the problem > so if mng doesn't do those it's probably safe regardless) By default, it doesn't understand/read/write GIF's. But, because of the callback mechanism, it is possible to extend libmng, by rewriting the mng_openstream()/mng_closestream()/mng_readdata() callbacks which understand GIF's. AFAIK, the GIF patent has expired, though. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
