Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Riku Voipio wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:19:59PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
>> 3) do not implement the full libjpeg8 ABI, nor the upcoming libjpeg9.
>
>This would be a relevant if some application actually used the
>"full libjpeg8 ABI" . In fact, 100% of debian works fine with
>libjpeg-turbo, or even the original libjpeg6b (if the would be
>recompiled against it again). 
>
>I find the reason that IJG libjpeg8 fork is so triggerhappy to
>repeatedly break the API and ABI (and image format!) rather a reason 
>to make libjpeg8 the non-default. 

That *alone* sounds like a good argument for switching, to be honest...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com