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RE: libming and ploticus
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:47:49 -0500
- Subject: RE: libming and ploticus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Schulman
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:21 AM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: libming and ploticus
>
> I'm considering packaging ploticus for Cygwin. Ploticus can
> output images in many formats, including SWF, but SWF
> requires libming, which isn't currently in Cygwin. I found
> this thread from Reini Urban, about packaging libming for Cygwin:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-09/msg00315.html
>
> Reini, do you still intend to package libming for Cygwin?
> (Or is anyone else interested?) I could take a hack at it
> myself, but that old thread suggests that there are a lot of
> packaging considerations that you had already worked on.
>
> For ploticus, libming isn't essential at all, but it would be
> nice to include the SWF output capability. For that, all I
> would need is libming.so, plus the header files to build ploticus.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
As for me and my house, I've been using ploticus for quite a while with no
patches and no problems. I would seriosuly not worry about SWF, it's
hella-useful even if you only have PNG output (like I run it).
If this needs votes, it gets mine, regardless of the number of output
formats.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle