From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: imagemmagick patch 5 Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:23:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87lje9xs4w.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <873a0d1j46.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87vdd9rwia.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87bpf0dmbn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267997052 27399 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2010 21:24:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, Emacs development discussions To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 07 22:24:07 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoNxG-0001vT-9v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:24:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoNxF-000681-H6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NoNxA-00067m-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44214 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoNx9-00067e-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoNx8-0004Rc-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:23425 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoNx8-0004RX-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:23:58 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAAOok0tLd+K+/2dsb2JhbACbRXS3a4R4BIMXh3Q X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,598,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="57688580" Original-Received: from 75-119-226-190.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.226.190]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 07 Mar 2010 16:23:57 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7302781CB; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:23:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87bpf0dmbn.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:08:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:121716 Archived-At: >>> it returns a raw representation of the extension data of a given (sub)image. >> Again, what is meant by "extension" here? > It seems the term "extension" is GIF-specific. The GIF specification says > that extension blocks "extend" the 87a definition to allow extensions like > the Graphic Control Extension that specifies the animation delay time, etc. > The parameter `count' is used in animation, but unrelated to "extension". > Perhaps a more common term for `count' would be "metadata". Then we should rename image-extension-data to image-metadata, I think. Stefan