Re: [AD] GIF patent / support

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Chris La Mantia:
> From: "Daniel Schlyder" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> I don't think the libs should be bundled
>> unless it is necessary to customize them for use with Allegro, and judging
>> from loadpng, that's not the case.

> Except right now, Allegro has no external library dependencies.  Linux users
> may be accustomed to always having zlib and libpng around, but that's not
> true on any of the other platforms.

I'm not a Linux user and I had no trouble downloading and compiling those
libs. Isn't bundling of dependencies just for user convenience a bit at odds
with Allegro's relatively low-level nature?

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