Re: new image library "requirements"

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Miles Bader skrev:
> I just tried compiling a new emacs, and the configure failed with:
> 
>    configure: error: The following required libraries was not found:
>         libgif/libungif libtiff
>    Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
>    If you don't want to link with them give
>         --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
>    as options to configure
> 
> 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):

> It is quite common in prepress, and since Emacs includes stuff like
> image-dired, it would appear reasonable to not omit it without notice.

	Jan D.