[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Isotrident 2

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:38:46AM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
> > That's weird, I've been doing all my editing in Gimp -- it handles them
> > fine.
> 
> Perhaps he meant windows version of gimp. AFAIK it doesn't support xpm.
> 
> > Which freeciv clients support png?
> 
> Only the windows ports. There have been patches in the past that added png
> support to the gtk client, but they have not been applied because those
> who don't have gtk often don't have libpng either, and it would be a mess
> to distribute both pngs and xpms.
> 
> Of course, it is not harder to solve this than saying freeciv requires
> libpng, go install, but here our absolutely minimal requirements
> philosophy is still holding development back.

Only if it's too cumbersome to support both; then you can pick png iff
libpng is found.

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Reinier