Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] [patch] new package: freeimage

[Volker Grabsch]

Mark Brand <address@hidden> schrieb:
> >>> 3)  [...] Is it possible to make
> >>>     FreeImage use those instead of baking its own ones?
[...]
> > I was mainly thinking of
> > other packages such as wxWidgets or Qt, which also contain
> > some other libraries, but we configure them to use the external
> > libs instead.
> 
> For Qt it's a configuration option offered by the package itself. For
> FreeImage, we would need to create and maintain such an option.

Okay, that's an important counter-argument. I agree that we should
not start to do that. It's not worth the trouble.

> We'd also be taking responsibility for possibly breaking something.
> Applications would have to be modified to link to the individual
> libraries. I'm inclined to leave the status quo alone. Do you agree?

Yes, I do.

However, just for curiosity, it would be interesting to know the
motivation of the FreeImage author(s) to design their library in
that unusual way.


Greets,

    Volker

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