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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: new image library "requirements"
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:07:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv645jmo1r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I0m9A-0000ji-Ck@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 18\:26\:00 -0400")

>> 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.

tiff support is really not crucial in my book, and neither is alsa (I don't
even know of any package that makes use of it).


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-20  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-17  0:07 new image library "requirements" Miles Bader
2007-06-18  6:01 ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-18  6:09   ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-18  7:34     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18  8:18       ` martin rudalics
2007-06-18 15:37         ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-18 15:39           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-18 19:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19  5:54         ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-19  6:06           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-19  7:28             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19  7:53               ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-19 22:27               ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20  1:08                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-19 22:26         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20  1:07           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-06-20 17:35             ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20  3:18           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-20  5:38             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20  5:50             ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-20  7:30               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20  7:37                 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-20 22:17               ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-20 17:35             ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 19:39               ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-21 17:32                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-19 10:41       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-19 11:14         ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19 11:16         ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-19 12:09           ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-19 21:12             ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-20  5:43               ` Jan Djärv
2007-06-20 13:28               ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18  7:30   ` David Kastrup

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