RE: death of the gif format
Web browsers support more than one format of image file .. jpg, png, etc...
Are you, and your clients going to pay the licensing fee's required to have
gif's up on a website? Even at my office, we need to pay if we want to use
gif's, and we're a non-profit organization.
I see no problem in removing gif support (at least from 'free' sections)..
if you need the gif support, you can always download and compile versions of
the software (in the case of gd, 'old' versions), and use that .. you aren't
locked into what debian gives you...
-Terry
>
> Hi all,
>
> wrt to discussion to remove gifs and related utilities from potato.
> This won't help much in killing the format. Debian is a very small % of
> total OS out there. I need gifs for the work I do (web development).
> Clients need to see the work that is done. Some people won't upgrade to
> potato if there are no gif utilities in it.
>
> result: Weaken Debian to weaken gif format. Which is more important?
>
> thanks,
> johno
> ps I'm not a maintainer (yet)
>
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