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Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo



On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 12:29 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 25/04/13 20:39, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> > It boils down to "jpeg6-2 is the only important thing. Forget about
> > jpeg8 and jpeg9, which bring incompatible changes".
> 
> There are other features in newer libjpeg that packages do need, even
> when not using exotic JPEG-like formats. For instance, ioquake3 uses the
> jpeg_mem_src() (ability to load JPEGs from a memory buffer, not just
> from a file on disk)
[...]

That seems to be a pretty simple convenience function which could easily
be added in either libjpeg-turbo or the applications that want it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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                                    A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.

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