From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image mode Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:14:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k5yxeg19.fsf@jurta.org> <45C70ECD.70208@gmail.com> <86ejp4q1zn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <45C7CC97.7050003@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170803782 3803 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2007 23:16:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:16:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, cyd@mit.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, storm@cua.dk, miles@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 07 00:16:14 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 1HEZXq-00007B-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:16:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZXp-00070S-Pl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:16:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZXc-00070G-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZXc-000704-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZXb-0006zy-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:15:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HEZXb-0005qu-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:15:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HEZWS-0005XS-9t; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:14:48 -0500 In-reply-to: <45C7CC97.7050003@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:66034 Archived-At: You can for example have heard that a new security bug was discovered in jpeg libraries. Then you would avoid opening jpeg images until this has been fixed. This can happen, for some people -- but most users won't hear about such things, and won't avoid viewing jpegs. So we cannot expect safety to be achieved that way. For whatever that matters. In such a case it is important to know how your program will open the images. (Will the program use the jpeg libraries?) We can tell people that Emacs will use the jpeg libraries, but most users won't draw any particular conclusions from that. They will just think "ok" or "so what?"