> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Schulman > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: libming and ploticus > > I'm considering packaging ploticus for Cygwin. Ploticus can > output images in many formats, including SWF, but SWF > requires libming, which isn't currently in Cygwin. I found > this thread from Reini Urban, about packaging libming for Cygwin: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-09/msg00315.html > > Reini, do you still intend to package libming for Cygwin? > (Or is anyone else interested?) I could take a hack at it > myself, but that old thread suggests that there are a lot of > packaging considerations that you had already worked on. > > For ploticus, libming isn't essential at all, but it would be > nice to include the SWF output capability. For that, all I > would need is libming.so, plus the header files to build ploticus. > > Thanks, > Andrew.
As for me and my house, I've been using ploticus for quite a while with no patches and no problems. I would seriosuly not worry about SWF, it's hella-useful even if you only have PNG output (like I run it). If this needs votes, it gets mine, regardless of the number of output formats. -- Gary R. Van Sickle
