On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:01 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 15, 5:34 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bill Janssen <bill.jans...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Nov 15, 1:02 pm, "Georg S. Weber" <georgswe...@googlemail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Some people buidling >> >> Sage from source do *want* a libjpeg on their system to be taken into >> >> accont by their PIL in Sage! >> >> > Really? Do you have user studies or other evidence of that I could >> > look at on that? It's surprising to me; I'd think that one build of >> > libjpeg would be much like any other build. >> >> Georg surely just meant that with the current setup where libjpeg is >> not included in Sage, they would want PIL to be able t use libjpeg if >> they have it installed on their system. Of course if you include >> libjpeg in Sage, then this argument vanishes. > > So are you not-so-subtly hinting that > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7344 > should be a standard spkg? Just checking.
Yes. A standard function in matlab is imread [1], which can read in jpg images. I'm sure Mathematica can too. Given the Sage mission statement, which is to be a viable alternative to Matlab, Mathematica, etc., it would make a lot of sense to include jpeg support standard in Sage. [1] http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/imread.html > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
