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Re: [trinity-devel] Any reason NOT to use libjpeg-turbo instead of libjpeg?

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:59:58 -0500
On 21 February 2012 16:51, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:
>> As long as it doesn't introduce any issues, and as long as
>> it can coexist with normal libjpeg, why not compile a
>> version for TDE just for the distros/versions that don't
>> already have it?
>
> We should not repackage anything still actively maintained upstream and is not a direct dependency for Trinity.
>
> Serghei said he would add a detection test to the cmake files.
>
> One note: if packagers build with libjpeg-turbo installed but downstream users do not have libjpeg-turbo installed, everything should still work. That is, using libjpeg-turbo should be optional in the code but still use the expected default libjpeg libraries when libjpeg-turbo is not installed.
>
> Darrell

it doesn't matter, libjpeg-turbo replaces it. the API the same, code
won't break... it's sort of an drop in replacement.:)

Calvin