Re: image scaling

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:

>  We would thus be using libpng to perform image manipulations, for
>  arbitrary images and not just pngs.  The trouble is that if libpng is
>  not available, all this functionality would disappear (not just for
>  pngs, but also for gifs or whatever other images *are* supported).  In
>  that case, how would we handle this at the Lisp interface level?

Well, what would be the motivation to use the libraries? Because if it
is speed, you can define a list of libraries, sorted by functionality
(speed, or whatever), and if no library is available, you default to
an Emacs-internal implementation...

             Juanma