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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:38:02 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: ITP: netpbm
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Jan schrieb:

> Today I've taken a look at the netpbm package.  Pierre Humblet, who's
> listed as Cygwin porter, is not considering to contribute it as Cygwin
> package, but was fine with me packaging it.

> I've only done a few quick tests, from ps->pnm->png.  URLs below.
> Cast your votes now.

Thumbs up from me;)

BUT:
Is it possible to put all the binaries into a separate directory
and not to flood /bin ?

There are 223 .exe files (the scripts and .dll not counted)!


Gerrit

> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/netpbm/setup.hint
>     sdesc: "Graphics conversion tools"
>     category: Graphics
>     requires: cygwin jpeg libpng tiff zlib
>     # build-requires: cygwin jpeg libpng libpng-devel tiff zlib
>     ldesc: "Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including
>     conversion of images between a variety of different formats.  There
>     are over 220 separate tools in the package including converters for
>     more than 80 graphics formats."

> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/netpbm/netpbm-9.25-1-src.tar.bz2
> http://lilypond.org/cygwin/tar/netpbm/netpbm-9.25-1.tar.bz2




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