On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:51:09 +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote:

> I wouldn't describe it as enthusiasm.  It'd describe it as trying to
> justify something that seems an obvious and easy win to me.
> 
> And I'd advocate removing anything that serves no useful purpose, and
> never will.

I seem to have opened a can of worms with my question, but I think it
has been more than answered.  I can certainly see the reasoning behind
using libpng and not libmng in some circumstances (I'd guessed that
was the reason libpng support was added anyway).

I have a perfectly working libmng here so I will be building NetSurf
using that only, as I don't see the point in disabling features (on a
desktop platform) and there doesn't seem to be a good reason to
increase the footprint by linking in both libpng and libmng.

ISTR similar arguments when Mozilla decided to drop MNG support.  If
nobody can view them they're not going to be used, are they?

Chris

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