[Freeciv-Dev] Re: XPM format

[Dirk Stoecker <stoecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Andreas Kemnade wrote:

> But png would be the only format which is supported on almost all
> platforms. You can leave the xpms in cvs and have different formats in
> the different binary distributions but should the modpacks be
> distributed in many different formats, too.

I agree, as Amiga distribution already does, the release versions should
have system specific graphics files. This maybe XPM, PNG or any other
format best usable on this system.

But the development sources should still use XPM.

> You can also read PNGs quite easily on AmigaOS. Just install the
> corresponding datatype and all applications that use that
> infrastructure can load PNGs.

As you can use XPM :-) But Amiga distributions will continue to use ILBM,
as this Amiga main graphics format.

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