On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:30:51 -0500 DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> My personal opinion-- if we really want TigerVNC to be a > high-performance product, then libjpeg/SIMD should be the default in the > build. We want distribution vendors to release packages that show off > the best performance possible. We don't want users to have to download > and build the code just to get the improved codec. At the very least, > the binary packages we produce within this project need to use > libjpeg/SIMD. I don't understand why anyone would not want to use the > faster technology, since it is fully open source. The only reason would > be if they couldn't get libjpeg/SIMD to build on their system, in which > case I think that the system libjpeg should be a configure option, not > the default. > The primary reasons are rather that they want a single library that they have to keep track of for bug and security fixes. So the general policy tends to be to avoid any bundled copies of general libraries. But I definitely agree that people should be using the optimised version. I'm just saying that reality might be different once distribution packaging guidelines enter the picture. Rgds -- Pierre Ossman OpenSource-based Thin Client Technology System Developer Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com
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