On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 19:43, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 18:18, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 14:55, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> The (large) patch at >>>>> http://developer.pgadmin.org/~dpage/embedded_images_infra-v8.diff >>>>> replaces all the XPM images in pgAdmin with PNG ones. This offers us >>>>> two major advantages: >>>>> >>>>> 1) XPM images aren't supported by many graphics tools, and almost >>>>> always require manual editing to fix the internal naming anyway. >>>>> >>>>> 2) XPM images don't support alpha transparency. >>>>> >>>>> The patch is a little complex, as it's not straightforward to embed >>>>> PNG images at build time. Here's what it does: >>>>> >>>>> - Adds a new project, png2c, on which the pgAdmin project is dependent. >>>>> - Adds a new build rule for .png files, which will cause them to be >>>>> pre-processed with png2c, to create .pngc files which are C source >>>>> code, containing the PNG data and some accessor functions and macros. >>>> >>>> Didn't we get rid of the beerware license in postgresql, to make >>>> corporate lawyers happy? Are you sure it's a good idea to introduce it >>>> to pgadmin here? >>> >>> I don't see why not. It doesn't *require* us to do anything. It just >>> says *if we think* it's worth it, we *can* buy him a beer. >> >> Yes. >> >> It was removed from postgresql because of potential concerns from >> *lawyers*. Don't expect them to be *logical*. > > Whose lawyers? Ones from companies that insist their staff include > confidentiality clauses on emails to public mailing lists by any > chance? Certainly not postgresql.org lawyers.
Yes, I believe so. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
