Re: C file recoginzed as image file

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Shouldn't we use 
>     libraries that are already there on the platform (if that is possible) 
>     to make this easier?
>
> I do not understand what this suggestion means.  I would
> like to understand.
>
> Could you please explain more clearly what you are advocating, and
> also, what the alternative is which you are arguing against?


Then I am beginning to think that this might be a problem only on w32. 
On w32 we are not using image libraries that are available from MS 
Windows. Instead we are using libraries from 
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/.

Installation of these libraries can be done by the user or they may come 
with a package together with Emacs. For example I currently distribute 
these with my prebuilt binaries.

Whichever way it is done it puts a new burdon on the user who have to 
look for security updates to these image libraries and somehow update 
them in case of a security problem with them. And in addition to this 
there might be a long delay before the libraries are updated in gnuwin32.

As I said above I guess (but do not know) that Emacs on GNU/Linux uses 
the image libraries that comes with the OS. That avoids the problems I 
have sketched above. I think we should strive to do the same on other 
OS:es (for example w32) too.

How to technically achieve this is another question.