[Cuis] Did we drop PNG support?

[Juan Vuletich]

On 12/20/2013 11:04 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> I don't care for JPEG, *ever.* For the record. My thinking was PNG 
> support and that's it, but I can see now why you decided against using 
> it (compression.)

Oh, but I am not against using it! It is the best option in many 
situations. I just think it is better for the kernel not to depend on it.

> I didn't know that BMP actually supported transparency. Yes, that will 
> do nicely (I don't care much for GIF either, though sometimes the 
> animated ones can be kind of a fun retro laugh.)

Given that we have an external package for this stuff, bringing back GIF 
it might be a good idea.

> I'm okay with getting rarely used image formats out of the core of the 
> system, FWIW. I worry with having this stuff outside the image we 
> usually develop in that we'll break stuff and not notice it though. 
> Maybe soonish would be a good time to do some kind of continuous 
> integration set up. That would help to ensure external packages keep 
> working. An adventure for another day though.

I'm not sure of the value of a continuous integration server. But I 
usually do stuff for Cuis updates in an image with all the "official" 
packages loaded, so I reduce the risk of breaking them. Sometimes, when 
committing updates, I also need to update some package.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich