Subject: Re: Linking against libjpeg ?
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 03:47:50 CDT
>According to Dom Lachowicz <cinamod@hotmail.com>:
> >
> > Localizations and encodings add up. There is no reason for me to have
>polish
> > strings and XPMs linked with my binary. gettext() or a similar system
> > (Java's MSGFormat comes to mind...) is good for this sort of thing.
> >
> > File formats also add up. But let's see what we're talking about:
> >
> > [dom@psk-60 xp]# wc -l ie_imp_*.cpp
> > 11061 total
>
>$ wc -l ie_impGraphic_JPEG.cpp ie_impGraphic_JPEG.h
> 389 ie_impGraphic_JPEG.cpp
> 80 ie_impGraphic_JPEG.h
> 469 total
>
>Is this bloat ? Note that these line includes lot of comments and the
>Abisource
>copyright which is NOT short.
wc -l libjpeg/*.c libjpeg/*.h
Big number. Is this bloat? What about libpng and all of our code that
specificall manipulates and operates on PNGs? The BMP importer too. How many
of these low-level classes must we create ourselves and ship libraries with
until people realize that this is the *wrong* solution?
If you want to learn libjpeg, this is a great exercise. If we take this
approach, we basically become an ImageMagik or GdkPixbuf which is *bad*
because Abi is a word processor and not a graphics library. Please don't
forget this...
Dom
[plug]
wc -l GdkPixbufLoaderClass: 50
wc -l ImlibLoaderClass: 50
wc -l QuickTimeLoaderClass: 50
wc -l IEComLoaderClass: 50
wc -l BeosSystemLoaderClass: 50
...
[/plug]
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