De-GIFfing (was Re: beta38-pre3 has been uploaded)
SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
This XEmacs has been de-GIFfed. If you are going to try the patch
(based
on vanilla beta37, reverse all patches to beta37 before attempting to
apply it), you will need to download the file in beta/testing
xemacs-gif-to-png.tar, then do from the top-level XEmacs source
directory:
[...]
-- All GIFs in core distribution converted to PNGs -- screw Unisys
This is all well and good for XEmacs' internal stuff to be all PNG, but
this is going to essentially cripple Emacs/W3 for displaying images. And
VM for displaying attached GIFs, as well as TM, etc. Could we _please_
investigate either crippling GIFlib so that it cannot _create_ GIFs, but
can still decode them, or using the bogus-encoding that Ghostscript uses?
-Bill P.