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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:57:15 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: imlib
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 11:07:36PM +0100, Jim George wrote:
>>Folks,
>>
>>I wanted imlib so give me image rendering support in slypheed and
>>couldn't find it in packages, so I downloaded and compiled version
>>1.9.8.1 straight out of the box.
>>
>>The reason I tell you this is that I wasn't sure why this handy package
>>didn't appear to be on the web site?  Or did I have my eyes closed?
>>
>>Should it not be an included package or at least a link on the site to
>>http://freshmeat.net/projects/imlib/?topic-id=809 ?
>
>Um, what are you expecting?  If no one has ported imlib, it won't show
                                                  and contributed
>up in the package list.  I don't know why this should be surprising in
>any way.  We don't just arbitrarily withhold packages from the
>distribution but we certainly don't spend all of our spare time porting
>packages that are of no interest to us personally, either.
>
>However, this is off-topic for this mailing list anyway since, AFAICT,
>imlib is an X-based library.

cgf

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