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Re: new image library "requirements"
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: new image library "requirements" |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:34:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
> > > While there's a case to be made for "requiring" (without options) X
> > > libraries or even jpeg /png, I think requiring these is kind of silly.
> > >
> > > Tiff is fairly rarely used except in specialized applications.
> > >
> > > The case with .gif is more vague, but it seems largely a legacy format,
> > > and is getting more and more rare these days -- you see it on old web
> > > sites, and people still use it for "animated" images (which emacs
> > > doesn't support), but it seems kind of unusual to see it for the kind of
> > > content which people might keep around.
> > >
> > > At the least, I'd drop the "requirement" for tiff.
> > >
> >
> > I asked the same thing, but David Kastrup was the only one who commented
> > (granted, the subject line was not about image libraries):
>
> Yes, where does it all end? Emacs will build without alsa headers but
> presumably that leads to some loss of functionality (playing midi files,
> maybe?). Should configure throw an error when these aren't found?
Maybe it should make a human-understandable report of missing
functionality at the very end of the configure run:
---- WARNING ----
The following functionalities will be missing in your compilation of
Emacs because of missing development libraries (specify
-without-FEATURE to omit warning about such a missing feature):
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
--
David Kastrup
- new image library "requirements", Miles Bader, 2007/06/16
- Re: new image library "requirements", Jan Djärv, 2007/06/18
- Re: new image library "requirements", Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/18
- Re: new image library "requirements", Jan Djärv, 2007/06/19
- Re: new image library "requirements", Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/19
- Re: new image library "requirements", David Kastrup, 2007/06/19
- Re: new image library "requirements", Jason Rumney, 2007/06/19
- Re: new image library "requirements", Richard Stallman, 2007/06/19
- Re: new image library "requirements", Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/19