From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new image library "requirements" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:26:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wsy3qw87.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <46761FA4.8090403@swipnet.se> <18038.8602.106679.989184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <86vedl1zrw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182292075 3539 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 22:27:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 00:27:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0mB0-0003r2-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:27:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0mAz-0004Rn-Gr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0m9D-0003CZ-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0m9C-0003Bo-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0m9C-0003Bh-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0m9B-000541-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:26:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0m9A-0000ji-Ck; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:26:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:26:03 +0300) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73347 Archived-At: > jpeg: used for displaying jpeg image files > tiff: used for displaying tiff image files > xpm: used for displaying xpm image files and color icons > alsa: used for playing sounds from within Emacs Either that (we already do something similar for X toolkits and such likes), or display a warning at startup (or both). Don't do that -- it would be a change for the worse. An error message is the right thing when a crucial feature that ought to work would fail due to missing headers.