On Sat, Jun 30, 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
> But the palm-supporting version of netpbm still isn't common, while
> ppmtoTbmp still is.
Neither of them are common. You have to build ppmtoTbmp by yourself
and if you can handle that then you should be able to upgrade to the
latest version of netpbm, too.
> It's a couple of lines to trap and retry using a command that worked
> before.
We look forward to receive a patch from you ;-)
> Maybe it should grumble while it does it, then remove support in a
> later version? It's better than suddenly breaking converters without
> warning everywhere.
By adding a check to the configure script we can prevent users from
installing Plucker unless they have the correct netpbm version, so it
would not break converters "without warning."
> (My copious free time is over-allocated elsewhere just now, sorry.)
Of course, we on the other hand seem to be expected to have an
unlimited amount of free time ;-)
/Mike
