From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 16 05:02:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0654106564A; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:02:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA228FC1B; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:02:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20081216050244.ZNJI3950.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:02:44 -0500 Received: from localhost ([68.103.159.188]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id rh2j1a00244AlM802h2jf7; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:02:43 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QGMjdLvVIdAA:10 a=fpAOSEmNAAAA:8 a=8pif782wAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=M2vb9adAf0zAnhvxe48A:9 a=3TI693iGdSiNPa05NpPwd16CRuQA:4 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:02:34 -0600 To: "Coleman Kane" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1229278954.1718.10.camel@localhost> <1229380736.6657.3.camel@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1229380736.6657.3.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.62 (Linux) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: APNG patch for graphics/png port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:02:44 -0000 On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:38:56 -0600, Coleman Kane wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 22:54 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:22:34 -0600, Coleman Kane >> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I recently played with building Thunderbird 3.0b1 from source (it >> works >> > pretty well, btw). I was playing with some of the options to enable >> > using the system versions of a number of libraries, rather than >> relying >> > upon statically linking them into the project. >> >> We should keep compile static link, because PNG folks disapprove >> Mozilla's >> APNG patch. It's what we did with Firefox 3. >> >> Cheers, >> Mezz >> > > Any idea why the mozilla folk jumped on further developing APNG, rather > than just using (much more mature) MNG for the same purpose? I have no idea. The google has found useful links and I think two URLs might help you. I didn't read there as I have no interest with and don't care about APNG vs MNG. http://mozilla.wikia.com/wiki/APNG_vs_MNG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG#History Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org