Re: merging imread and imwrite

[John W. Eaton]

On 31-Jan-2008, Thomas Treichl wrote:

| There won't be a problem on MacOSX -- it's just a question about how many 
| library dependencies should be solved before building ImageMagick and use 
that 
| for Octave? Sure, the best thing would be 'all' but I think then we would at 
| least double the size of an Octave standalone binary application just because 
of 
| graphics libraries?! So I'm out of ideas here -- what is the best middle 
course?

If we only linked the ImageMagick libraries with the .oct files that
need them, then the Octave binary itself would not be larger, but yes,
it is somewhat more complicated to build a fully functional Octave
distribution if there are more dependencies.

OTOH, if all we are doing is reading some image files, maybe ImageMagick
is more than we need.  Are there other portable libraries available
that support a reasonable number of image formats and that just read
and write without being full image processing libraries?

jwe