libjpeg vs. libjpeg-turbo

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 21, 2015, at 10:11 PM, Mihai Moldovan wrote:

> On 22.05.2015 02:49 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> This would involve verifying that libjpeg-turbo works (or at least builds)
>> correctly on PowerPC and Intel Macs running 10.4 and up.
> 
> This could become an issue on PPC and older versions. Who can test, whether
> current libjpeg-turbo builds?

I can, in a day or two.


>> It would be good to verify that at least a good portion of those can compile
>> with libjpeg-turbo before committing, though it sounds like it's already
>> pretty well-tested in other distributions.
> 
> I'd skip that. If it works with jpeg, it's supposed to work with libjpeg-turbo
> (mind it being a drop-in replacement.)
> 
> Making sure that libjpeg-turbo builds is higher priority.

Right. I'd like to verify those things before committing and potentially breaking lots of things for lots of users.