GNU bug report logs - #41544
26.3; Possible incorrect results from color-distance

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Simon Pugnet <simon <at> polaris64.net>

Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 16:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.3

Full log

Message #178 received at 41544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: simenheg <at> runbox.com, Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 tom <at> tromey.com, 41544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41544: 26.3; Possible incorrect results from color-distance
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:44:50 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I gave all the reasons I have.  They are serious, at least to me.
> They have nothing to do with the quality of your research or of the
> resulting code.  They have everything to do with considerations of
> stability, and with weighing risks and efforts vs advantages.  If you
> don't regard such considerations as technical arguments, so be it.

I understand your objections to changing this behaviour, but the new,
correct calculations make things a lot better.  Would it be possible to
add the new calculations with a defcustom to say whether to use the new
or old methods?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 353 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.