APNG patch for graphics/png port

Coleman Kane cokane at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 15 14:39:10 PST 2008


On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 22:54 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:22:34 -0600, Coleman Kane <cokane at freebsd.org>
> 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?

-- 
Coleman Kane
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