On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:59:33 +0100 Markus Teich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Grant Mathews wrote: > > Aside from those points: would rewriting the patch to not use libnetpbm, > > but to use the Netpbm helpers instead, be acceptable? > > Heyho Grant, > > no it will not, but as noted in the other mail you are welcome to push your > patch to the wiki. > > --Markus It seems a few people wanted pbm support instead of farfeld in sent, so it's probably a good candidate for the wiki. Personally, I don't see much reason to have a complex image format as an intermediate when all we really care about in sent is simplicity and the internal representation of image data. Farbfeld is the magic "read any type of image" component, and it shouldn't matter whether you use farbfeld or some magic bloated library that imports all image formats. If you replace the word "farbfeld" with "libimagereader", would you still be motivated to replace it with pbm? Maybe calling farbfeld an image format (technically correct) is throwing people off. "farbfeld the image file reader"? But I don't think that description would portray the special simplicity of farbfeld. -- Matt Boswell
