Re: Open items

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> win32 binary version stamps
> >
> >Magnus has just gone on holiday for a couple of weeks but
> >before he left
> >he did tell me he'd submitted what was hopefully the final patch for
> >this. I haven't seen it yet though - is it stuck in the queue?
>
> I did, and I thought I saw it come through, but that could be me just
> accidentallyi CCing myself. Here it is again.
>
> IIRC there was discussion about the location of the files (Peter I think
> it was suggesting creating a new directory - I'll happily leave that
> part up to an eventual committer).
>
> Another discussion was about binary files in the tree (not being source
> files - the source is a binary .AI file (AFAIK that's Adobe
> Illustrator)). The question was raised wether ImageMagick could do this
> conversion - it can't. Doesn't support AI. Also, it would introduce yet
> another build dependency in order to create a single file. I don't see
> much other way than stuffing the icon in there (possibly along with the
> .AI file if you'd need to change it manually). It is, after all, just a
> resource and not code.

These binary files are almost never going to be changed so I see no
problem with adding them to CVS, and putting whatever source we can into
CVS. If we can't we just document how we created the binary. Can you
export the image to tiff format or something so we can modify it laster
if we need to, or perhaps gimp format?

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