[Development] QMovie no longer supports .mng

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 27 de abril de 2016 01:11:28 PDT Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jake Petroules wrote:
> > The MNG and JPEG2000 plugins are no longer built by default on most
> > platforms because upstream development has stalled and there are known
> > security vulnerabilities. See
> > https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/141429/
> 
> For libmng, you bundle the ancient version 1.0.10 from 2009 (!). The current
> version is 2.0.3 from 2015:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/libmng/files/libmng-devel/
> Despite the new major version number, qt5-qtimageformats compiles with no
> changes against that version.

Nice!

I wonder why the bundled copies are still present. The commit that disabled 
them was "Build MNG and Jpeg2000 plugins only if system libs found".

Deletion in https://codereview.qt-project.org/157156.

> For JPEG2000:
> > You can still build them manually if you really want them. Perhaps you
> > could help port the JPEG2000 plugin to
> > https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg
> 
> That would be an option. But I would start by just getting the Jasper
> security fixes from a GNU/Linux distribution (e.g.:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/jasper.git/tree/
> ) and applying them to your bundled copy.

Sorry, just deleting. That makes downloading and maintaining such a library 
SEP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEP_field

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