Re: BMP Image support

[Alexander Malmberg]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> Karsten Fuhrmann wrote:
> > Hello,
> > lately i was trying to open a BMP file by using NSBitmapRepresentation
> > but then i discovered that there no BMP support in GNUstep.
> > My question is, should bmp support be integrated into GNUstep or should
> > i do that in my own program.
> 
> There's no principle reason why -gui couldn't handle BMP in addition to
> the other formats it currently supports. Patches to implement
> NSBitmapImageRep+BMP are welcome. :) NSBitmapImageRep+PNM.[mh] is
> probably the best place to start.
> 
> If we start getting lots of bitmap loaders, or loaders with
> dependencies,

And that was supposed to be:

If we start getting lots of bitmap loaders, or loaders with
dependencies, we might want to look at moving them to bundles, but I'd
expect a bmp loader to be small and simple.

- Alexander Malmberg