Re: Image Framework without AppKit

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 17 Nov 2005, at 17:18, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 2005-11-17 17:02:41 +0000 Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I've always wanted something like that. But I don't know where to  
> > put it (without duplicating code and dependancies). Maybe a bundle  
> > in gnustep-gui - so you would have to install gui, but it would  
> > not link to the library.
>
> Starting from scratch, I would have put a simplified NSImage into  
> Foundation, with NSString, NSData and other similar classes, and  
> then had a category in AppKit that provided all of the GUI  
> functionality of NSImage.  I don't know if this could be done in  
> GNUstep without breaking things, however.

The downside would be that you would be adding dependencies on  
graphics libraries (jpeg, gif, png etc) to the base library.  I guess  
that's why Adam suggested a bundle in the gui library.