[Bug 526651] Review Request: xpaint - An X Window System image editing or paint program

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--- Comment #29 from Paulo Roma Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>  2009-10-23 06:10:54 EDT ---
xpaint can be run without any included "C code". 
However, a user can call the C script editor from the tab options,
and then load and compile from the template tab, a filter, a surface, etc...

Rpmlint gives us some guidelines, but there are several Fedora packages
which produce dozen of warnings. I personally do not care if xpaint has a devel
package or not. It is really better a single package with everything inside,
though.

Our role as packagers is secondary. We just need to ship a useful system. If we
dislike some upstream decisions based on our packaging standards is not the
main point, in my opinion.

Xpaint is an old program, which was part of RedHat in the past.
However, it has made some improvements along the time. According to the current
developer:

"Versions >= 2.8.4 include a new high performance postscript
generator. The PS files are e.g. often less than 50% the size of the (already
compressed) PS files that gimp produces, and the new thing is very fast -
see enclosed 'ppmtops' prototype. I don't think there are so many
open source programs, even among the very established ones, that are
"aware" enough of these algorithms; of course 'ppmtops' relies on
a combination of PNG predictors with LZW compression which had been
patented till around 2004, so maybe it's the reason - if Adobe would
provide better support for unpatented compression schemes as an
alternative to LZW, one could do even better."

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