Re: Removing libwraster

[Adam Fedor]

On May 24, 2004, at 7:32 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Adam Fedor wrote:
> > What about removing libwraster from the backend dependencies, now that
> > we have image handling routines in the gui now?  It seems to work fine
> > for me.
>
> I am all in favour for the removal of libwraster, but didn't you 
> forget about the usage in x11, where it is used for much more than 
> just the image loading? It would be nice, if we could get rid of this 
> code here, but without this change we would keep on using the old 
> wraster files we currently have included in back, even if y newer 
> version of libwraster was installed.

Well, the stuff we still need is really basic - getting the correct 
visual and colormap, etc. We could rewrite it, but then it would still 
have to be maintained.  I've thought about it, but it doesn't really 
seem worth my time.