Re: Optional support for GDI+ on Windows (emacs-28)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 20:33:58 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Alan Third <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > My idea is to define a new image type, and have a image_types[] entry
> > set up to call the native method.  Something like that, anyway.  Would
> > that be okay?
> 
> Fine with me. I’d considered something similar for the NS port a while
> back.

Great, we will see how that plays off.

> In actual fact what I’d wondered about was whether it would be
> possible to delegate the image loading routine to a module, so it
> would be possible to have, say, an imagemagick module, or a gd module,
> or whatever and if someone wanted to use one they could just load it.

Some image types should still be built-in, since we display icons in
the UI.  Other than that, it could be an interesting idea, if it
works.

> But I don’t know if modules would be suitable and I never investigated
> it.

Neither did I.