On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Dexter N Muir wrote:
Took a dunderhead newbie like me to show these things up :-)
Nope. I regularly rant and rave about such things. Most of our user problems seem to be these sorts of issues nowadays.
IM/GM: Is there something that really needs this particular library, or is it just a convenient all-in-one for component libs - png, tiff, jpeg etc. Would a break-down into individual libs be a major headache or loss?
IM or GM (GM is a fork of the IM project) give us LOTS of different image file formats all in one package. What we actually USE of those various formats is up for debate. Probably 3 or 4 formats is all anyone really needs. If there are others they can convert them before-hand. What I'd prefer would be GPL'ed code that is known working, which we could add to our own sources. This way we could leave all of it alone if it continued to work, and have a guaranteed image library to use in all cases. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir