hi
i think you sent your mail to the wrong address
instead of "bodhi" pacific net
it should be "angbodhi" or something ... because i do not know you all
Rasmus Tamstorf wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Alexandre Naaman wrote:
>
> > 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 :)
>
> Is there any word on the plans for IFL ? I know Chris Walker put out a
> closed source alpha version of IFL v.1.4 for linux before leaving SGI, but
> I haven't seen much since then.
>
> Rasmus
>
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