Re: Linking against libjpeg ?


Subject: Re: Linking against libjpeg ?
From: Paolo Molaro (lupus@debian.org)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 10:02:43 CDT


On 04/18/01 Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> Again the other thing to consider, as someone (dom I think)
> mentioned is that perhaps going the ImageMagic route with a
> common API that then uses these same libs would be more worthwhile
> (and also reduce our internal code bloat).

On unix at least, it would be far better to use gdk-pixbuf:
1) it's a lot smaller
2) it's faster
3) it loads the image libs at runtime only when needed
4) it will come anyway for free with Gtk 2.0

lupus

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