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On Sunday 10 October 2004 01:45, Dustin Dettmer wrote:
> Wouldnt it make more sense to ingrain the PNG support
> into Allegro? I think thats a more attractive
> approach as far as an Allegro user is concerned.
Absolutely. However, there are two problems: libpng and zlib have a more
restrictive license than Allegro does, and it adds a dependency to
Allegro. One of the nice things about Allegro currently is that you
basically don't need anything else to get it installed (not exactly true,
but close enough).
> wouldnt
> it be nice if that library was capable of reading and
> writting popular image formats?
I think most people would be satisfied with using .bmps for that.
Although, I agree the `official addon' or a list of suggested packages with
links from Allegro's download page would be good. Works better than a note
in the docs.
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