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6 Oct 2024 12:19:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: library finding request  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 19 Aug 2002 08:25:37
Message: <3D60E3A8.4070702@free.fr>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> "Le Forgeron" <jgr### [at] freefr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:3D5### [at] freefr...
> 
>>Nowhere, but I did not say that I like that fact.
>>It would be better to take profit of the portability and have a bmp
>>reader (Win sys) on Unix and Mac port, and reverse of course (thus being
>>able to use the same scene files whatever the system).
>>
> 
> How did you conclude the Mac version will not read BMP images?  Or tons of
> other formats for that matter...?
>


I do not know the Mac version (Just that it exists),
But it's a shame that there no code for BMP for Unix version.
Maybe I overly exagerated the generalisation of "sys" for image, but I 
really found the concept of "sys" a bad idea for enhancement.

It would be better to provide a fully portable code, and label it with a correct tag.

"sys" is a quickpath for a new port on a system, but it leads to chaos...


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