New subject: Image lib

Wednesday, 28 July 1999

        Didier Verna <verna(a)inf.enst.fr&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: 
...
> I'm afraid Imlib sucks much worse than ImageMagick. 

...
 It looks rather powerfull (there is a caching mechanism directly
 implemented in it etc) 
Yes, but I believe we already do caching.

...
 but the latest version has a bug which makes all applications crash
 on TrueColor displays. It's been a while that this bug has been
 identified. 
Ugh.  And double ugh.

...
 As always, the problem is to get the balance right between
reinventing
 the wheel and getting hooked on some external work that we don't have
 control on. 
Maybe we should just write somewhere that we have nothing against
unified interface graphics libraries, but until one gets written that
doesn't suck we roll our own.

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