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#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:56:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4AA6F4B5.7090709@gnu.org> <9E679449329F495F8E181F79B03A9366@xahPC> <83d4602j0x.fsf@gnu.org> <831vm9z450.fsf@gnu.org> <4AAEDADC.3000501@gnu.org> Reply-To: Lennart Borgman , 4367@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253005643 16476 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2009 09:07:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Xah Lee To: Jason Rumney , 4367@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 11:07:16 2009 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 4.50) id 1MnU0J-0006b3-Cw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:07:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnU0I-0007Yi-3P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnU0C-0007XU-Na for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnU07-0007Tt-KH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48765 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnU07-0007Te-Fy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:37832) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnU06-0002ZV-MU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n8F9708n031609; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:07:00 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8F903HP029769; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:00:03 -0700 Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:00:03 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Lennart Borgman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:00:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 4367 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 4367-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B4367.125300503529349 (code B ref 4367); Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:00:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4367) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 15 Sep 2009 08:57:15 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n8F8vDkq029324 for <4367@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:57:15 -0700 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b2so1564707ana.31 for <4367@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:57:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uBYxPML1ZvOFGcY0p0IpBVEY7xCLxrRyzn3MsztpsPY=; b=ipKNmMiZOdLcMjMzFYUPHto7XEzGLeDuKYxjqx3PTcVDbeMhKJw3005HLAxHjMTvLt /41XmU1d3SlgcZqgWMX3plyRH/GCpyRk90a8g24CP1M9cDvNxszkqnaPu843ZCzhhf6k HvUxTUFXavOH9bGLqYBsy9cUr6pNtC45yEs+0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; 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=Hrdb8QKFycZmusRjYpuQugXRbyUfyGoskSC8eumYHYPzbnwWjQJEHBzetMDthzQ1sk r54kM4hx+vs8LeBh2Wo0PM0JGmxjKYBpV9mgX0rc6khLEojNbYTB9tsZlo+cRLGQ4dsC uaGHjdNnzZKZKlT4/5vl5WpE/jQZMLXt7fTOE= Original-Received: by 10.101.62.6 with SMTP id p6mr6516618ank.153.1253005033407; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:57:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AAEDADC.3000501@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:07:07 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list 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:31104 Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Jason Rumney wrote: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> >>> it is trivial to include the dll libs for images. >>> >> >> No, it isn't: there are various copyright issues > > I would hope not. > > My reason for not including image DLLs with the official release are > twofold: > > 1. The effort required to keep up with security bugs in at least 6 differ= ent > image related libraries, and to figure out how to get all of those librar= ies > to compile on Windows (many other ports are not as well documented and > maintained as Emacs in this respect). > > 2. The need to include a lot of third party source on the GNU ftp server = - > this may make it misleading as to the origin of that source, and may invi= te > irrelevant bug reports. > > > I find it surprising that people have such strong views about the inabili= ty > of a TEXT EDITOR to display various image formats out of the box. =C2=A0W= e ship > enough third party libraries for Emacs to display all the graphical > components of its own interface, isn't that enough? Perhaps it would be good to include libraries that allows the most common web image types (if that is possible)?