bzr.exe, PyQt4 and suport for image formats

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> bzr.exe has PyQt4 libs bundled inside of version 4.4.x (I don't know
> exact version). In Qt 4.4.x series support for many image formats (gif,
> ico, jpeg, scg, tiff) provided by plugins. These plugins currently is
> not packaged to bzr.exe unfortunately, so QBzr lacks this support (it
> can understand only built-in image formats, e.g. png, bmp).
> 
> To enable image support you need to place directory with image plugins
> (named "imageformats") right into the folder where bzr.exe installed
> (e.g. as C:\Program Files\Bazaar\imageformats). And then support for
> jpeg/gif will work.
> 
> John, as I could see you already build 1.16 final installer, so this
> recipe is a bit late. Is it possible to have imageformats plugins in the
> next release? I can provide a patch to copy these plugins as part of
> py2exe action. The size of folder with plugins is about 7MB. I think
> they will increase the size of installer on 2-3MB.

So I can see adding support for more than just png and bmp. I don't see
a need to provide support for all possible image formats, since we only
need what we will be using.

We're already way over size budget (something like 15MB, IIRC), so an
extra 2MB isn't a huge deal. Certainly if it makes the qbzr developers
lives easier, we'll all survive.

John
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