[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {jpeg/libjpeg-devel}-7-10, NEW: libjpeg7-7-10

Tue Aug 11 00:10:00 GMT 2009

The jpeg package contains the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg library
and various utility programs for manipulating jpeg files and images.
This is a major update to the new upstream release. Also, support for
"lossless jpeg" has been removed (see below). Because these changes
break the ABI, the DLL has a new name and the old cygjpeg-62.dll is
provided in a separate, backwards-compatibility package.
[[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]]
Because gcc-4.x for cygwin is still in beta status, this version of
jpeg was compiled using the current version of gcc as indicated above.
I'll release a new version, with gcc4 and all the goodies (dw2 exceptions,
shared-libgcc, etc) when cygwin's gcc-4.x is officially promoted.
This release is specific for cygwin-1.7. There will be no jpeg-7 release
for cygwin-1.5.
CHANGES (since 6b-20)
========================
o Update to latest upstream release
o Remove "lossless jpeg" support.
o Update hint files to reflect correct requirements:
 don't explicitly specify cygwin, and we do not actually
 require libpng or libz.
About Lossless JPEG:
========================
 Lossless jpeg support has been removed. Lossless jpeg was never
 accepted upstream, and has been a "local" patch in the cygwin version
 of jpeg for years (since the first "Net Release" after cygwin B20.1).
 The patch modified certain data structures that are marked "private"
 in the jpeg headers, but they *are* in the headers. Therefore, many
 clients have manipulated those "private" structures directly. To
 interoperate with cygwin's lossless-patched version, they had to make
 certain accomodations:
 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg01005.html
 So the question becomes, why was lossless jpeg support added to
 cygwin's official version of libjpeg in the first place? I added it
 because I needed it to deal with certain medical imagery, and frankly
 was unaware at the time that changing "private" data structures would
 really affect anybody else.
 Isn't that what "private" means?
 Well, I no longer need to deal with that sort of imagery, and
 "private" never really was very private, and it DID cause lots of
 people grief. And, our build environment for packages is much nicer
 now than it was in the early days, so any Joe who needs lossless jpeg
 can easily build it themselves. So, it's nice to finally get rid of
 the lossless jpeg patch.
 The downside of removing this, is that over over the years those
 other clients have added lots of workarounds to accommodate cygwin's
 jpeg library. With this release of libjpeg, those clients no longer
 need those workarounds -- but until they too remove their workarounds,
 building those clients will break on cygwin again!
 However, because the DLL name (analogous to the linux SONAME) has
 been changed in this release, existing applications will continue
 to operate correctly, relying on the (old) cygjpeg-62.dll. It's
 only newly-compiled applications that will use the new cygjpeg-7.dll
 and may need to reverse their earlier accomodations for cygwin's
 lossless jpeg.
-- 
Charles Wilson
volunteer jpeg maintainer for cygwin
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