From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, spinuvit@gmail.com, joakim@verona.se,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: imagemagic in image-mode and image-dired-thumbnail-mode?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:50:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y5973jqp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjtos7ex.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,
> spinuvit@gmail.com,
> joakim@verona.se,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:45:26 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> > > Eli, are you proposing to do the work yourself?
> >
> > You know very well that if I did, I would not be speaking here, but
> > instead coding and committing.
>
> Really? Given several people who are interested in this feature
> although unable to do significant work on it at the moment? I didn't
> realize you were an advocate of "last commit wins". ;-)
Last commit always wins.
> > I don't disagree with the principle, but the results are evidently not
> > very satisfactory.
>
> Image libraries suck, that's part of life. How many PNG crashes and
> GIF crashes have been fixed upstream? How many of these libraries
> have undocumented restrictions on arguments or image formats that
> people have had to guess at over the years? How many more of those
> undocumented restrictions will have to be deduced in order to add
> features like scaling, one at a time? I don't know the details, but I
> can tell you that over the last ten years, as far as those affecting
> XEmacs go, the answers are "lots", "all of them", and "dunno, but past
> experience doesn't allow me to be optimistic".
As a matter of fact, my experience with image libraries used by Emacs
is very positive. I don't think I ever had any crash related to that.
> > You didn't mention scaling, which seems to be the trigger for this
> > thread.
>
> Other people mentioned it, so I didn't think I needed to. :-)
OK, but that's the gist of this thread, IMO. Scaling is an important
feature needed by eww and whatnot, so we should try to have a stable
implementation, one way or another.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-15 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-14 7:25 imagemagic in image-mode and image-dired-thumbnail-mode? Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-14 8:32 ` joakim
2013-07-14 11:48 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-14 12:40 ` joakim
2013-07-14 13:01 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-14 12:42 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-14 18:21 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-14 19:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-14 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-14 20:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-14 22:00 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-15 4:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-15 4:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-07-15 4:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-15 5:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-07-15 10:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-08-02 15:32 ` Steinar Bang
2013-07-15 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-07-14 18:33 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-14 19:17 ` joakim
2013-07-15 10:51 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-16 15:57 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-16 21:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-17 7:29 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-17 15:51 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-18 8:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-18 22:27 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-19 9:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-20 7:25 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-22 20:17 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-22 20:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-23 8:31 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-18 23:22 ` image-transform.el and image-mode.el rewrite Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-19 11:52 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2013-07-19 12:21 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2013-07-20 7:18 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-07-22 20:37 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-22 21:05 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-10-08 18:08 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-08 23:43 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-10-09 0:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-12-15 9:33 ` Vitalie Spinu
2014-12-18 14:17 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-12-18 21:32 ` Vitalie Spinu
2014-12-18 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-18 23:23 ` Vitalie Spinu
2014-12-19 4:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-19 4:46 ` Vitalie Spinu
2014-12-19 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-19 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-19 21:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-19 10:24 ` Vitalie Spinu
2014-12-19 17:51 ` Stefan Monnier
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