Subject: bug#7716: 23.2.91; Pretest Windows binary doesn't support PNG images

From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:02:08 +0100

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:19:38 -0800
>>
>> This should not be so complicated.  Windows users - above all other users (since
>> more Windows users are not programmers) - should be given a failsafe,
>> braindead-simple way to get images to work in Emacs.
>
> The only way to make this dead simple is to statically link Emacs
> against all image libraries.  This will make a much larger binaries,
> so I'm not sure we want that.
>
> The other alternative is to distribute the DLLs together with Emacs.
> Unfortunately, this has legal complications.

Aren't there more alternatives? How about just storing the relevant
image dll:s somewhere where Emacs users can grab them? I do not think
there are any legal complications doing that as long as you tell where
the sources are etc.