On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jonathan Lim wrote:
> On Mon Aug 21 12:02:13 2000, bodhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Does this mean libFL will eventually be replaced by Freetype
> > alone, or will Freetype be just one of the candidates to replace
>
> I mean the latter, but it is really up to the community to decide.
> There are at least two other components of the software in a similar
> situation: the image I/O library currently served by libimage and the
> NURBS tessellator.
The NURBS tessellator should be replaced with the stuff in the OpenGL SI.
As for the image I/O stuff, it uses libimage for SGI RGB files, a
"built-in" version of libjpeg for reading JPEG files and some xpaint
derived source to read GIF files. For the jpeg stuff it would definitely
be nice if we did not have the functionality of libjpeg built-in (can
cause conflits if your application needs to use libjpeg for anything
else).
In the long term, it would be nice if we could replace all of this code
with IFL code; I think Jonathan has been toying with this idea :)
A+,
Alexandre.
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