From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: image scaling
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:21:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsowljj1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxvkk9q4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:38:27 -0500")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> We would thus be using libpng to perform image manipulations, for
> arbitrary images and not just pngs. The trouble is that if libpng is
> not available, all this functionality would disappear (not just for
> pngs, but also for gifs or whatever other images *are* supported). In
> that case, how would we handle this at the Lisp interface level?
I dunno about other people, but my thought was simply to make the
interface abstract enough that we could easily use a thin wrapper around
an external library for image handling, and keep a "portable" version
(mostly, the current code) for cases when such is not available.
-Miles
--
Quack, n. A murderer without a license.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-21 4:21 image scaling Stefan Monnier
2008-02-21 8:42 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-02-21 9:10 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-21 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-21 20:41 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-02-21 10:01 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-21 10:06 ` joakim
2008-02-21 12:43 ` David O'Toole
2008-02-21 18:43 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-21 21:49 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-21 22:20 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-22 6:35 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-22 6:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-22 7:26 ` Jan Djärv
2008-02-22 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-22 4:57 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-22 7:48 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-22 20:28 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-22 21:52 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-22 22:41 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-22 22:51 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-22 10:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-22 10:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-02-22 11:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-22 20:38 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-22 20:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-22 22:21 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-02-23 19:28 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-22 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-21 22:28 ` Richard Stallman
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