SV: Re: SV: RE: Re: TortoiseIDiff suggestions

>> I would like to go even further: Why don't we take the plunge and
>> start distributing FreeImage with TortoiseSVN?
...
>> As a bonus the whole question of extending TortoiseIDiff to support
>> more image formats becomes the question of extending FreeImage to
>> support more image formats. Everybody wins!
> I like that idea. But we should keep using FreeImage optional. So I
> suggest to keep the current CPicture class (the part that uses the
> IPicture interface to show the most common image types) and use
> FreeImage to show the rest.

We can't keep FreeImage optional if we want to use the interfaces it
provides for accessing raw-pixel-data.

We *must* have something akin to FreeImage_GetBits() to be able to do
efficient comparisons, there's just no way around that, and FreeImage
provides that.

Hans-Emil

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Received on Wed Oct 4 11:20:05 2006