From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7716: 23.2.91; Pretest Windows binary doesn't support PNG images Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:31:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83pqs3i6dz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <96CD750011454F0284E48443756AFAFE@us.oracle.com> <2CBDA6B5DFE94625B7148D772661D4DC@us.oracle.com> <83wrn0e4bl.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqsrebkk.fsf@gnu.org> <83bp4bdtrd.fsf@gnu.org> <0BCD9F01D7EF490E95DBE4B7A6114995@us.oracle.com> <8362ujdmdu.fsf@gnu.org> <9E74C35E9AFE4DB6942F94A6264F6621@us.oracle.com> <834oa3dkv5.fsf@gnu.org> <65313A23AC1747308EF7F0DE349A99C1@us.oracle.com> <4A871458F8874E7D89CBB8D1A34E05A5@us.oracle.com> <83y66shyma.fsf@gnu.org> <992A1FF535834870AA382D0C5871D019@us.oracle.com> <83vd1vi8k1.fsf@gnu.org> <5C23A15FBDE24F15A94C862C18A0E63B@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294775689 18879 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2011 19:54:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sean.sieger@gmail.com, 7716@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 11 20:54:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PckIl-0003QP-Sh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:54:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PckIl-00029x-EV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:54:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33848 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PckIR-000243-L8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:54:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PckIH-0006yn-2N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:54:23 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52475) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PckIG-0006yi-T7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:54:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pcjqz-0004wm-Im; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:26:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7716 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,w32 X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7716-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7716.129477392018970 (code B ref 7716); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7716) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jan 2011 19:25:20 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcjqK-0004vv-H8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcjqI-0004vi-Q7 for 7716@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:25:19 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LEV00M00I5FVB00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 7716@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:31:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.131.253]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LEV00MPUI919VC0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:31:52 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <5C23A15FBDE24F15A94C862C18A0E63B@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:26:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43262 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: , <7716@debbugs.gnu.org> > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:19:38 -0800 > > This should not be so complicated. Windows users - above all other users (since > more Windows users are not programmers) - should be given a failsafe, > braindead-simple way to get images to work in Emacs. The only way to make this dead simple is to statically link Emacs against all image libraries. This will make a much larger binaries, so I'm not sure we want that. The other alternative is to distribute the DLLs together with Emacs. Unfortunately, this has legal complications. It is unfortunate that libpng developers made an incompatible change between version 1.2 and 1.4. This is what started this whole issue. There are no such problems with other image libraries. I will see what I can do about the other points you raise (except for .ico support: I have no idea what's involved).