#1161: Add thorn libwebp ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------

Comment (by knarf):

You are welcome to. What would you use it for?

It looks like major browsers (like firefox) will not support it for quite a while, for different (and as I read difficult, political) reasons. We shouldn't rely on people being able to display such files for a while it seems.

#1161: Add thorn libwebp ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------

Comment (by rhaas):

If we have no thorn that actually uses it (a la IOJPEG), I am not sure I see the need (but if someone wants to package it up this is also fine with me -- as long as it does not break compiles, take long to compile or add extra dependencies :-) ). If someone wants to update eg IOJPEG with extra formats then this would seem to make more sense to have the external library.