Bug#419696: ITP: freeimage -- Library to support popular graphics image formats

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:16:39PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : freeimage
>   Version         : 3.9.3
>   Upstream Author : Hervé Drolon <drolon@infonie.fr>
> * URL             : http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/
> * License         : GPL or FreeImage Public License
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : Library to support popular graphics image formats
> 
> FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would
> like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF
> and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. FreeImage is
> easy to use, fast, multithreading safe, and cross-platform (works both
> with Linux, 32 bit Windows and Mac OS X).

Is it just a NIH effect or does it have advantages over imlib, gd,
imagemagick and all the others image libraries we already have in the
archive ?

Mike