Re: Image DLLs for the Windows binary of Emacs 22.2

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Jan 31 2008, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31 2008, Jason Rumney wrote:
>> A Windows binary is available at
>>  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-22.1.90-bin-i386.zip
> [...]
>> In addition, libxpm.dll is bundled, [...]
>
> What about the DLLs for PNG, JPEG and other image formats?  It would
> be great if you could include them as well.
>
> In the discussion in July 2007, Richard agreed to include them in the
> zip file, see the articles below:

Any comments or a decision about the other image DLLs?

> ,----[ <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/15799/focus=74079> ]
> | From: Richard Stallman
> | Subject: Re: bad tool-bar icons in Emacs 22.1 release
> | Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
> | Date: 2007-07-01 00:30:33 GMT
> | 
> |     Probably it wasn't clear from the quoted context: The binaries on
> |     <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows> don't include DLLs required to
> |     display XPM (tool bar), PNG, JPEG and other images in Emacs.
> | 
> | For convenience, let's put these libraries on the site.
> | We should distribute the source alongside the binaries,
> | and we should make sure that the binaries have whatever
> | notices are required by the licenses.
> `----
>
> ,----[ <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/15799/focus=74214> ]
> | From: Jason Rumney
> | Subject: Re: bad tool-bar icons in Emacs 22.1 release
> | Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
> | Date: 2007-07-02 23:30:53 GMT
> | 
> | Richard Stallman wrote:
> | >     Is not that a good argument for including them in the binaries then?
> | >
> | > It is an argument in favor of that.  But people say that would be a pain
> | > for other reasons.  So maybe this is the best compromise.
> | >   
> | 
> | I must have missed that mail - what was the pain?
> `----

Bye, Reiner.
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