Juanma Barranquero wrote:

>On 8/9/05, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> None of these problems make Emacs unusable.
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>No, no unusable. However...
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>>The JPEG problem can be avoided
>>by compiling with a Free compiler (which we do anyway for binary
>>releases).
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>...that's not entirely true. We don't distribute the libraries' DLLs.
>Matching a GCC-built Emacs with some MSVC-built libraries could expose
>the same problem.
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OK, so we release the binary without JPEG support. It's still better 
than not releasing at all.