Re: XEmacs and 1x1 gif images

Jerry James writes: AFA image libraries go, according to what I've read, GraphicsMagick has a more stable API than ImageMagick. OTOH, I'm not sure we care about that since we have no backwards to compat. Besides, Emacs is using ImageMagick, so we can get some useful tips and possibly apps from them. I don't know if there are other libraries around. Actually, basic modularization isn't all that hard. I've done a bunch (both from former core code -- Canna -- and from scratch). But there are some tricky aspects I haven't mastered (I'd like some help with modules that need to load other modules and/or Lisp libraries as prerequisites, but I'll get back to you on that), and if we're going to hand GIF to Imagemagick, it *really* should be usable on Windows (where GIF is a lot more prevalent than on Linux) which I know nothing about modularizing beyond depending on ellcc. There may also be some tricky aspects to image processing since it's low-level and maybe gets called from redisplay? Actually, I think it's Gnusies who want gnutls, which is going to be pretty pervasive in Emacs 24. I suspect VM would be happy if we went with the same TLS implementation as GNU, too. (If I had my druthers, I think I'd go with openssl as the Gnubies have been through a fair amount of pain with gnutls, especially w.r.t. Windows.) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta