Hi, On Nov 27, 2014, at 17:18, Barry Kauler <[email protected]> wrote:
> The LZW compression patent on GIF images expired over ten years ago. > Yes, 10, and T2 is still using libungif. > > The guy who was maintaining both 'giflib' (the proper one, with LZW > compression) and libungif (creates gifs without any compression), > years ago archived libungif and now only maintains giflib. > > giflib home: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/ > > I have been using giflib in my local T2 for a few years. Time to contribute > it. > > package/graphic/giflib.desc: > > [I] Reading and writing gif images > > [T] A library for reading and writing gif images. > > [U] http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/ > > [A] Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]> > [M] Rene Rebe <[email protected]> > > [C] extra/multimedia > [F] CROSS > > [L] OpenSource > [S] Stable > [V] 5.1.0 > [P] X -----5---9 120.400 > > [D] 0 giflib-5.1.0.tar.bz2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/files/ > > For a .cache file, the same one as for libungif will do. > > There is no need for a .conf file. > The installation of giflib will create libungif symlinks, for any > package that is stuck in a time warp. > > I did a sweep through 'package' directory and replaced all occurences > of "libungif" with "giflib". These are the affected files: Thanks for the tip, did not notice libgif, yet. Committed revision 43425. René -- ExactCODE GmbH, Lietzenburger Str. 42, DE-10117 Berlin http://exactcode.com | http://exactscan.com | http://ocrkit.com | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.de
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