Re: [AD] WIP compressed texture support patch

["Trent Gamblin" <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think that's acceptable. Whether or not to enable it by default is more
difficult. I'd say if there's any question about it, leave it disabled by
default.

-----Original Message-----
From: SiegeLordEx [mailto:slabode@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: December 17, 2014 7:56 PM
To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [AD] WIP compressed texture support patch

On 12/16/2014 08:30 AM, Brandon McCaig wrote:
> SiegeLordEx:
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:55 PM, SiegeLordEx <slabode@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Right, I was wrong about the level... you need to implement every 
>> element of a claim. The particular claims that concern the component 
>> that I've implemented always include it along with other components 
>> which I didn't implement.
>
> How hard would it be to design the patch so that support for this can 
> be easily excluded from the build? That way if anybody fears patent 
> issues and doesn't require this functionality they can spare 
> themselves the trouble by just excluding it from their distribution 
> entirely. If it isn't too much work to do and maintain it seems 
> worthwhile just in case since it was enough to prompt a discussion at 
> all and none of us are laywers..

Not hard at all, but it's not something easily worked around, so loading of
pre-compressed bitmaps will be disabled for OpenGL if it's compiled out.

-SL

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