On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 13:44:34 +0000, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well I take back some of what I said before. In the new version > (4.0.1) the cut-and-paste C code for reading and writing images has > been replaced with use of the appropriate libraries (libpng, libjpeg, > libungif, freetype). This is very encouraging, and shows that this > new upstream is back on track. > > I'm still dubious about the image processing code, since that seems to > duplicate the functionality of things like cairo, but at least (a) > it's written in OCaml so it'll be robust from buffer overflows etc, > and (b) it's not likely to be security sensitive because it doesn't > read directly from image files. > > Anyhow, go for it, don't let me discourage anyone from packaging > things for Fedora. Thanks for the comments. Having another person take a quick look at it and have good things to say (at least relative to the old version) is encouraging. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
