Re: [RFC] jpeg library

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 28/06/2009 01:17, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Nope. Upstream development is DEAD.  There was some flurry of activity
>> about two years ago, but it never went anywhere.   If IJG's libjpeg
>> wasn't so widespread and widely used, I'd want to look at some other
>> library that supports the format...
> 
> Actually, are you sure about that?  http://www.ijg.org/ lists a version
> 7, released yesterday, as the current version.

  I was just about to say "We could always try and find a security
vulnerability, that's the only thing that would cause upstream to update
libjpeg these days!  :)  But then I took a look at the new change.log and it's
actually crammed with new and improved functionality, so this is an ideal
opportunity.

  I think the makes freezing (obsoleting) libjpeg-6b forever with the lossless
patch incorporated, and just moving to a straight unpatched release of
libjpeg-7 a no-brainer doesn't it?  What a fortuitous bit of timing!

    cheers,
      DaveK


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