Re: [avr-libc-dev] pngtopnm

[Joerg Wunsch]

As E. Weddington wrote:

> > They belong to the popular netpbm graphics conversion program set.
> > Since netpbm basically just converts files, it should be portable to
> > any environment that conforms to ANSI/ISO C.

> Yeah, "should be portable", but I'm dealing with Windoze. I'm not 
> about to go off and create a port of graphics software that's really 
> just auxillary to get a compiler up and running.

Well, even if you got pnmtopng to compile (which should be possible,
Windows is explicitly mentioned as supported on Netpbm's project
page), you'd still be faced with the problem to get doxygen for
Windows...

> > Do you have a ppmtogif tool for Win32?  
> 
> No. fig2dev came with ppm2pcx and gif2pnm. And cygwin came with 
> ppm2tiff.

That's not very much. ;-)  Netpbm comes with about 150 conversion
tools...

> Why does the project have all these auxillary graphics conversions as 
> part of its make in the first place?

There are a lot more tools required to build the docs.

> Why does the .fig have to be a part of the source? Why not convert
> it to .png before adding it to CVS and leave out all this conversion
> in the make?

See Ted's reply.  Btw., we'd need to keep redundant copies of the
files in CVS if we did this (one JPEG and one PNG for each source
image).  Also, since xfig files are basically plain ASCII only, it was
not too difficult to resolve the CVS conflict when Ted and i started
to edit these files simultaneously...

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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
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