NDPI format and NDPITools

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> - NDPITools apparently uses modified versions of libtiff and libjpeg.
> This is a completely reasonable way to handle NDPI, but unfortunately it
> won't work for us: the policies of various Linux distributions (notably
> Fedora) prevent us from shipping modified versions of third-party
> libraries inside our own codebase.

Speaking from debian point of view, this statement is incorrect.
The debian policy /enforces/ use of system libs, but you could have
good reason to maintain a derived copy (I do in the case of IJG, the
libjpeg for most linux distro).

2cts
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Mathieu