On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:02:57PM +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > 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 I read the link and it seems libjpeg62 is sufficient (i.e. jpeg6 ABI) for bibisect. So you should not need jpeg8 ABI. Regards, Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
