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bug#7716: 23.2.91; Pretest Windows binary doesn't support PNG images
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
bug#7716: 23.2.91; Pretest Windows binary doesn't support PNG images |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:02:08 +0100 |
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Cc: <sean.sieger@gmail.com>, <7716@debbugs.gnu.org>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:19:38 -0800
>>
>> This should not be so complicated. Windows users - above all other users
>> (since
>> more Windows users are not programmers) - should be given a failsafe,
>> braindead-simple way to get images to work in Emacs.
>
> The only way to make this dead simple is to statically link Emacs
> against all image libraries. This will make a much larger binaries,
> so I'm not sure we want that.
>
> The other alternative is to distribute the DLLs together with Emacs.
> Unfortunately, this has legal complications.
Aren't there more alternatives? How about just storing the relevant
image dll:s somewhere where Emacs users can grab them? I do not think
there are any legal complications doing that as long as you tell where
the sources are etc.