> I say v7, but was not aware that there was v8 and v8a. I don't see
> any useful documentation on http://www.ijg.org/ that seems to be the
> official site, i.e. no release notes, no change log, ...

Yup - it is not the most verbose homepage...

However, it currently says (grabbed right now from my browser):

"The current version is release 8a of 28-Feb-2010. This is a stable and
solid foundation for many application's JPEG support. 

You can find our code and some supporting documentation in the directory
files. There is a Unix format package in tar.gz archive format
jpegsrc.v8a.tar.gz and a Windows format package in zip archive format
jpegsr8a.zip."

So 8a is latest.

If you then grab jpegsrc.v8a.tar.gz it contains a file "change.log" that
clarifies things. A bit.

Again, quoting from the v8a change.log file:

"Add data source and destination managers for read from and write to
memory buffers.  New API functions jpeg_mem_src and jpeg_mem_dest."


> I don't know.  If we upgrade our bundled lib and use functions that
> are available in v8x, then a user who configures to use the system
> libs may get problems, unless we add more feature test macros to
> autoconf and use this in our code.  OTOH, if we could provide some
> features like those you mentioned, this would probably be good.
> 
> Maybe we should wait some time until v8 is more in use in Linux
> distributions and elsewhere.

I was mainly thinking that the bundled lib would be statically linked
anyway, so ABI differences are a Don't Care.

The API is not changed AFAIK.


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