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Re: gEDA-dev: Re: gEDA-cvs: CVS update: ChangeLog
El dom, 24-09-2006 a las 20:54 -0400, Dan McMahill escribió:
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> ah. I missed that bit. That makes me feel better. Time for a stupid
> question on my part. Why is gdlib ever used then?
I don't want to enter into a library war, but may I ask the same
question?
gdlib is another library in gaf's library dependency, only used to
export the schematic to PNG. This task is currently done through
libgdk-pixbuf, which can export to some other graphic formats (although
this is not yet available in gschem).
Most of the systems which have GTK have also libgdk-pixbuf, but for
example, I didn't have libgd installed on my machine.
Another point is that a gschem compiled with gdlib can't export PNGs of
schematics including pictures (I think it's not easy to implement this,
and I wonder if it will ever be done). gschem without gdlib does this
out of the box.
So I guess we have two libraries to do the same task: one does it fine,
and the other can't export pictures. If the reason to maintain gdlib is
that the output is slightly different, why don't tweak the output of the
other library to be the same?
Regards,
Carlos
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