libming and ploticus

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

> -----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