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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: C file recoginzed as image file |
Date: | Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:48:59 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) |
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.
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