Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
Reposting to docs list for discussion:
on this page:
http://perl.apache.org/download/docs.html#Prerequisites
It talks about needing netpbm, which I don't have installed, but build
does seem to have worked right for both the HTML and for the PDF's (at
least as far as I can tell). Should the lack of netpbm be causing an
explosion, or am i missing out on something more subtle from not having it?
I'm pretty sure this is really outdated and very special use case.
This requirement comes from MAINTAINERS file and image conversions --
<snip>
== perl -le 'for (@ARGV) { print STDERR "converting $_\n"; \ s/\.\w+$//; \
== system "pngtopnm $_.png | pnmquant 256 | ppmtogif > $_.gif" } ' *.png
</snip>
pngtopnm et al are part of netpbm.
<snip>
dia generates .png files via its export method. As older browsers
won't recognize .png or crash, we want to use gifs instead. Here is
how to convert png files to gif files:
</snip>
I'd say any browser that can't deal with .png's we can toss at this point.
Maybe you found your first commit :)
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