[Splashy-devel] 0.3.1 beggins ;-)

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:12:55 -0200
Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:

> "Pat Suwalski" <pats at xandros.com> writes:
> 
> > Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> Yes, we can work on that. I personally think we should at least clean
> >> up it as possible. If we then opt to support JPEG then we might drop
> >> both PNG and GIF. What others think?
> >
> > I'm not suggesting people drop PNG; it's probably the "best" way to
> > go. I was simply saying that if there were more flexibility in
> > choosing image loading engines, then everyone will be happy. So, you
> > can have JPEG off by default, but turning it on at build time is not
> > difficult.
> 
> I got it but I think we could have most of them disabled by default. I
> just want to check with all what's the others opinion? We can make all
> them as compile options :-D

If we do dynamic linking we can just ship the relevant modules on it.
At the time we build the initramfs we can just determine what kind of
images the theme has and install only the modules we need.

grts Tim