Hi Bastien,

for what is worth here are the pathes that we need to apply downstream on
windows:

https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gdk-pixbuf2

Regards

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I've spent a couple of days triaging all the gdk-pixbuf bugs, wrangling
> patches, and testing what was testable. The bugs left over basically
> fall in a few categories:
> - Bugs or feature requests in the loaders. There's quite a few of them
> that could probably be handled in minutes, or maybe in a couple of hours
> if one doesn't know a particular format. It would be great to have an
> OPW or GSoC project based on those.
> - API additions. A few of those for animation features which we might or
> might not want to support, quite a few for async versions of existing
> functions, or variants of existing functions (stream-based loading).
> - GDI loader bugs
> - Pixops bugs (Argh [1])
> - Handling of huge images
> - Cairo interaction support
>
> The last 3 are related in that GdkPixbuf is a format that doesn't lend
> itself to handling big images (especially black and white pictures would
> balloon in memory usage), and that its coverage for acceleration in
> manipulation and compositing is small (basically unaccelerated on
> anything but 32-bit x86 and Solaris).
>
> I think we need to start looking at a replacement for pixops, and a
> replacement for the GdkPixbuf format.
>
> I'm particularly interested to know what cairo, pixman and other image
> manipulation libraries can do for us. Benjamin surely has comments[2] :)
>
> Cheers
>
> PS: Now is a good time to look at your pet feature, dig in a little, and
> get your patches reviewed.
>
> [1]:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gdk-pixbuf&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=pixops
> [2]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491507#c13
>
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