[Savannah-hackers] RE: GIF files

[David Holmgren]

Hi - Thanks for your e-mail.  I have not put any gif files into the GCL
project since I registered with savannah last week.  Since then, I have only
had one opportunity to log in (that was Jan. 20).

 Sincerely,

 David Holmgren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 10:35 AM
> To:   address@hidden
> Subject:      gcl: GIF files
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     Could you please remove the following GIF files from the project
> gcl hosted on the GNU machines ? 
> 
>     For an explanation on why there are not GIF files on the GNU
> machines read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html. This policy was
> established years ago by the GNU project and is an integral part of
> the requirements for every project registering on savannah.gnu.org
> (see http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php).
> 
>     The home page of your project is 
>       http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gcl/
> 
>     You can convert GIF files to PNG using the gif2png program.
>       http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/gif2png-2.4.2.tar.gz
> 
>     Here is a sample script to convert the GIF files that are in
> the sources of gcl to PNG.
> 
>     export CVS_RSH=ssh
>     mkdir tmp 
>     cd tmp
>     cvs -d address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcl co .
> 
>     while read file 
>     do
>       gif2png -O $file.gif
>       cvs delete -f $file.gif
>       cvs add $file.png
>     done <<'EOF'
> gcl/gcl
> EOF
>     cvs commit -m 'Convert GIF to PNG'
> 
> 
>       Thanks for your help,
> 
>       The GNU volunteers, address@hidden