[cairo] JPEG Support For Libcairo

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Thursday 31 December 2015 13:02:53 Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 15-12-29 12:16 PM, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> > On 29/12/15 12:35, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> >> On 28.12.2015 15:12, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> >>> I implemented two small functions which read/write JPEG into/from a
> >>> Cairo
> >>> image surface.
> >> 
> >> Added it to cairo tree - see patches.
> > 
> > The API is missing the stream functions. JPEG API has previously been
> > proposed [1]. Behdad's reply [2] summarizes the reason the patches were
> 
> > declined:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Indeed, at the time, the impression I got from Carl and others was that the
> PNG support is just a convenience and everything else should be done on top.
> gtkpixbuf is one such library that supports a bunch of formats.  I imagine
> the glib dependency might not be desirable, so someone might want to start
> a new library.


That's exactly my original intention. I needed jpeg within one of my projects 
and I didn't want to link against all that bloated gtk stuff.

I thought my code to be a reference implementation or an example for someone 
with similar requirements but I didn't want to kick off this huge discussion.

Nevertheless, in the meanwhile I started to improve the code and implement the 
stream functions as well, based on the suggestions made on this list.


Regards,
Bernhard