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Re: netpbm?


At 04:58 PM 9/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>There is a netpbm binary distributed on Pierre Humblet's ftp area at
><ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/
V1.1/>.
>Any particular reason why it's not part of the Cygwin distribution (other
>than "nobody bothered to make it into a package")?

Although I helped port it to Cygwin, I have not used netpbm in years
and I am not interested in maintaining it. It now compiles OOTB but be
forewarned that there is a new version almost every month (at least,
it used to). I recompile it on demand, when people ask me to.

Pierre


 


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