Fwd: [Libjpeg-turbo-users] jpeg-9, API/ABI compatibility, and the future role of this project

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 01/15/2013 01:01 PM, Adam Tkac wrote:

> Another interesting thread is
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30352453
> 
> We are currently discussing drop of the
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo-jpeg8-ABI feature because
> SmartScale encoding (only reason of the jpeg7 and jpeg 8 ABI bumps) was rejected
> by ISO and actually doesn't bring any benefit over widely used png/webp codecs.
> 
> So Fedora will probably stick with old jpeg6 API/ABI unless IJG maintainer
> reveals some new facts about SmartScale. All facts are currently against
> SmartScale (image quality/size, compression/decompression speed).

Upstream Tracker shows 0% of binary compatibility with previous
releases: http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/libjpeg.html

I hope other distributions don't use that release.