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Re: adding PIL 1.1.7 to launchpad-developer-dependencies

 

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Michael Hudson
<michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Edwin Grubbs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> PIL will be used for the new script for generating the combined sprite
>> image from the individual image files. python-imaging 1.1.7 provides
>> much better PNG compression than previous versions, and it is already
>> packaged for lucid. I want to add it to the launchpad PPA and then to
>> launchpad-developer-dependencies.
>
> Will the results of combining the images be checked into the tree, or
> something 'make build' does?  If the latter, PIL will need to be in
> launchpad-dependencies, not launchpad-developer-dependencies.


Since we shouldn't need to regenerate the sprites file that often, I
don't think it is too onerous to have developers run an additional
make target and then commit the image, so that PIL only needs to be
added to launchpad-developer-dependencies.

-Edwin



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