From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7716: 23.2.91; Pretest Windows binary doesn't support PNG images Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:02:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: <96CD750011454F0284E48443756AFAFE@us.oracle.com> <2CBDA6B5DFE94625B7148D772661D4DC@us.oracle.com> <83wrn0e4bl.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqsrebkk.fsf@gnu.org> <83bp4bdtrd.fsf@gnu.org> <0BCD9F01D7EF490E95DBE4B7A6114995@us.oracle.com> <8362ujdmdu.fsf@gnu.org> <9E74C35E9AFE4DB6942F94A6264F6621@us.oracle.com> <834oa3dkv5.fsf@gnu.org> <65313A23AC1747308EF7F0DE349A99C1@us.oracle.com> <4A871458F8874E7D89CBB8D1A34E05A5@us.oracle.com> <83y66shyma.fsf@gnu.org> <992A1FF535834870AA382D0C5871D019@us.oracle.com> <83vd1vi8k1.fsf@gnu.org> <5C23A15FBDE24F15A94C862C18A0E63B@us.oracle.com> <83pqs3i6dz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294781755 19216 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2011 21:35:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sean.sieger@gmail.com, 7716@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 11 22:35:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pclsb-0003Cj-1P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KsG9k+BVtPRh7kgRuLvjq/VBTRxNiodMbE552bDTbcchRPFd15oHykiDL86PtsVuNm wVLmsaYPJJ4ZvcLfTpIQf5lMr9MwV3V3Xzt37EBYSoIRT4t9SnOEkiIherqkUZrTRnH9 8go1DwZ93OLNqz2fg/7KSe3Whi7D/bGx4dLE4= Original-Received: by 10.213.28.66 with SMTP id l2mr3259207ebc.71.1294779748841; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:02:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.20.148 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:02:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83pqs3i6dz.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:56:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43265 Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: "Drew Adams" >> Cc: , <7716@debbugs.gnu.org> >> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:19:38 -0800 >> >> This should not be so complicated. =C2=A0Windows users - above all other= users (since >> more Windows users are not programmers) - should be given a failsafe, >> braindead-simple way to get images to work in Emacs. > > The only way to make this dead simple is to statically link Emacs > against all image libraries. =C2=A0This will make a much larger binaries, > so I'm not sure we want that. > > The other alternative is to distribute the DLLs together with Emacs. > Unfortunately, this has legal complications. Aren't there more alternatives? How about just storing the relevant image dll:s somewhere where Emacs users can grab them? I do not think there are any legal complications doing that as long as you tell where the sources are etc.