Re: Image support for Carbon Emacs (Re: Consolidation of image support)

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On 20 Apr 2004 10:28:44 -0400, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> said:

> libXpm is very easy to get on Mac OS X, so maybe it'd be better to
> try and support libXpm in Carbon Emacs (tho it may depend much too
> much on the rest of the X11 libraries).

That's why I didn't use libXpm.  Unlike other image libraries, it is
heavily dependent on X11 functions and data structures.  Linking X11
libraries is definitely not an option.  I thought implementing
emulation of X11 functions and data structures was overkill for our
purpose, and it actually conflicts with the existing ones in Carbon
Emacs.

XPM itself is not difficult to implement if we restrict ourselves to
version 3.  For example, ImageMagick also uses its own implementation
of XPM functions rather than libXpm.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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