On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Petr Tomasek <toma...@etf.cuni.cz> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:28:17AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > After several rounds of fixing overflow and allocation failure issues in > > various loaders this cycle, I'm reconsidering following the suggestion in > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721372 > > > > wbmp, tga, ras, qtif, pcx, ani... these are probably prime candidates > for > > being removed. > > > > Before doing so, I want to ask if anybody is willing to step up and > > maintain these loaders. Note that even if we drop these from gdk-pixbuf > > itself, they can be maintained out-of-tree... one of the advantages of > > having loaders as modules. > > > > Matthias > > > > Hello Matthias! > > Is it possible to add such modules as "third-party" module? > If so wouldn't it just be possible to create a github repository a move > these modules there - so that users can decide if they take the risk or > not? > Yes, gdk-pixbuf still supports loaders as modules. For example the svg loader is shipped with librsvg. So yes, it would be possible to create a github repository and host unmaintained loaders for irrelevant image formats there - I won't do that work, though.
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