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

[fog@initd.org (Federico Di Gregorio)]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:33:50PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
[...]
> > 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 ?

It is the one used by Ogre3D >= 1.4, that we're packaging right now.
The only advantage I know of is that it supports texture formats like
DDS natively.

federico