From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org>
Cc: 4367@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:02:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831vm9z450.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B222B1A524A44396BEFF90BBB71CEF3E@xahPC>
> From: "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org>
> Cc: <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:30:11 -0700
>
> perhaps this is controversial... but doesn't FSF people want GNU Emacs to be
> working out of the box on Windows?
Emacs works on Windows as well as it does on GNU/Linux.
> it is trivial to include the dll libs for images.
No, it isn't: there are various copyright issues, and sorting them out
takes effort. Why bother if every interested user can easily download
these libraries from public sites, which are advertised in nt/INSTALL?
> The only reason i can think of is that perhaps FSF prefer emacs to be work
> well for GNU/Linux and does not take extra steps to make it work as well for
> “non-free” Windows.
Emacs does not come with image libraries on GNU/Linux as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-14 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-09-07 23:37 ` bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image Xah Lee
2009-09-09 0:20 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-09 3:32 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-09 8:42 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-09 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-14 19:30 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-14 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-09-15 0:07 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-15 8:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-09-16 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-09 3:46 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-09 8:55 ` bug#4367: marked as done (23.1; unable to view this png image) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-09-14 19:37 bug#4367: 23.1; unable to view this png image Xah Lee
2009-09-16 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-16 1:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-18 19:27 ` Xah Lee
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