From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 10:37:06 EDT
>> So, what I'd like it that default installer for
>> Windows, and packages
>> for UNIX includes the following plugins:
>> -BMP
>> -WMF
>> -JPEG
>> I don't care which one is used, but we need the
>> capabilities to decode
>> these image fileformat.
>
> Yeah, so Unix should use the GdkPixbuf plugin and
> probably also ship the libwmf2 plugin, even though I
> wrote a GdkPixbuf loader for WMF images.
>
Now I get to make my rant. The GdkPixbuf loader should *NEVER* have been a
plugin for unix anyway. It should be a core feature built along with the
application. Rui insisted that that it should be and now he's not even
going to make rpm's with it installed.
I got bit by this the other day when I couldn't even load a jpeg image.
Well since no one else is gonna make rpm's for RedHat 9 I'll try to make
them.
Martin
>> If you have any objections, feel free to speak up.
>> I'm willing to delay
>> the release for a few days if you need to make
>> changes in the installer.
>
> The release should probably be put off for a few days
> anyway - Phearbear is going to backport his QNX work
> to the STABLE branch. We'll have a 2.0.1 release for
> our 3 current platforms.
>
> Dom
>
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