Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:54:18 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Coleman Kane" <cokane@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APNG patch for graphics/png port Message-ID: <op.ul6s9fow9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1229278954.1718.10.camel@localhost> References: <1229278954.1718.10.camel@localhost>
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:22:34 -0600, Coleman Kane <cokane@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently played with building Thunderbird 3.0b1 from source (it works > pretty well, btw). I was playing with some of the options to enable > using the system versions of a number of libraries, rather than relying > upon statically linking them into the project. We should keep compile static link, because PNG folks disapprove Mozilla's APNG patch. It's what we did with Firefox 3. Cheers, Mezz > One thing that I noticed was the APNG patch from here: > * http://littlesvr.ca/apng/. > This seems to be expected by Thunderbird and is part of the latest > source tree. Mozilla has been maintaining a format spec here: > * https://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification > > Sadly the patch has lagged behind the latest releases of libpng. I > merged the patch into the latest version (1.2.33) that we use, and have > made an appropriate change to the port files of graphics/png. I think > that APNG support from libpng may be useful in other software as well. > > I am attaching the patch, to apply in /usr/ports, for anyone to test. So > far it doesn't seem to regress anything for me, and I can use > thunderbird 3 with --with-system-png=/usr/local in my .mozconfig. I'd > like to see some other testers, and get a comment from the graphics/png > maintainer. -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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