Re: Emacs pretest 22.1.91

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Takashi Hiromatsu
<address@hidden> wrote:

>  In my opinion,
>     If your libxpm.dll has much advances than others, it should be placed
>     at first in the alist. And it is better that the DLL can be take
>     alone, not with huge package.
>     If not, more popular one should be placed at first.

It is largely irrelevant how much "advanced" a release of libxpm is,
because Emacs is not a general interface to access its functions; it
just uses a subset of it for its purposes, a subset which is
implemented in all three of libxpm.dll, xpm4.dll and libXpm-nox4.dll.

Choosing one or the other is more a matter of stability (bug fixes,
etc.) and compatibility with Emacs. As libxpm.dll is now included in
the binary Windows distribution, certainly it makes sense to prefer
it, as it can be assumed it is relatively stable and compatible. If
the user really prefers to use another library, he can trivially
modify `image-library-alist' in his .emacs.

             Juanma