From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:09:30 +1200 Message-ID: <18038.8602.106679.989184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <87wsy3qw87.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182146988 16592 80.91.229.12 (18 Jun 2007 06:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 18 08:09:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0AQq-0002M9-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:09:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0AQp-0003Sa-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0AQm-0003PS-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0AQl-0003O6-Dx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:09:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0AQl-0003NX-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:09:39 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0AQj-0003KN-OO; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (22.61.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.61.22]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB8E3D9FC1; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:09:34 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C6AA18FBF6; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:09:30 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.3 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73211 Archived-At: > > While there's a case to be made for "requiring" (without options) X > > libraries or even jpeg /png, I think requiring these is kind of silly. > > > > Tiff is fairly rarely used except in specialized applications. > > > > The case with .gif is more vague, but it seems largely a legacy format, > > and is getting more and more rare these days -- you see it on old web > > sites, and people still use it for "animated" images (which emacs > > doesn't support), but it seems kind of unusual to see it for the kind of > > content which people might keep around. > > > > At the least, I'd drop the "requirement" for tiff. > > > > I asked the same thing, but David Kastrup was the only one who commented > (granted, the subject line was not about image libraries): Yes, where does it all end? Emacs will build without alsa headers but presumably that leads to some loss of functionality (playing midi files, maybe?). Should configure throw an error when these aren't found? -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob