On 15/01/13 20:04, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > On 01/15/2013 01:01 PM, Adam Tkac wrote: > >> Another interesting thread is >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30352453 >> >> We are currently discussing drop of the >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo-jpeg8-ABI feature because >> SmartScale encoding (only reason of the jpeg7 and jpeg 8 ABI bumps) was rejected >> by ISO and actually doesn't bring any benefit over widely used png/webp codecs. >> >> So Fedora will probably stick with old jpeg6 API/ABI unless IJG maintainer >> reveals some new facts about SmartScale. All facts are currently against >> SmartScale (image quality/size, compression/decompression speed). > > Upstream Tracker shows 0% of binary compatibility with previous > releases: http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/libjpeg.html > > I hope other distributions don't use that release. FWIW i'm afraid i've had to build jpeg8 from source already to get a certain binary [1] built on Ubuntu to run on Fedora 17... [1] actually a git repo full of binaries: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Bibisect -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
