On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Carnë Draug wrote:
On 1 September 2014 12:24, László Böszörményi (GCS) <g...@debian.org> wrote:
Hi Carnë,
have to build it themselves. Making everyone happy is not possible
(well, there's a new GM features which would allow to have 3 separate
packages, one for each configuration but that may be more trouble) but
it would seem that 16 bit, would make the most people, and the typical
user, happier.
I added the ability to create three different packages so that
distributions like Debian can create a special 16-bit package without
disrupting users of the existing 8-bit package. This requires that a
new package name be added and there would still be conflicts for
includes and the 'gm' executable which would require the user to
select which -dev package to use, and which executable package to use.
The 8-bit package takes 1/2 the memory and is faster (very good for
any display/web application), but it does not handle the basic
requirements for desktop publishing, which needs more color
resolution.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
