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: new image library "requirements" Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:07:44 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182304980 4208 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 02:03:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:03:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 04:02:57 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 1I0pX5-0001UY-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:02:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0pX5-0005V1-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:02:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0pX1-0005UI-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0pWz-0005T8-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:02:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0pWz-0005T0-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from toq5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.27] helo=toq5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0pWx-0005dz-Lc; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.143.156]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070620010744.JHCX6941.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 69572813E; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:07:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 19 Jun 2007 18\:26\:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:73374 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. 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