FS#48730 - [xterm] enable compilation of sixel support
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Opened by Andrea (BrainDamage) - Monday, 28 March 2016, 19:17 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 04 May 2016, 18:17 GMT
Opened by Andrea (BrainDamage) - Monday, 28 March 2016, 19:17 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 04 May 2016, 18:17 GMT
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xterm optionally supports sixel graphics (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel,
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
)
as of xterm package 324-1 the option is not enabled in the buildsystem, it has to be specifically enabled passing --enable-sixel, it'd be nice to have support for graphics that don't require hacks like drawing on top of the terminal |
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Closed by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Wednesday, 04 May 2016, 18:17 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: 324-2
Wednesday, 04 May 2016, 18:17 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: 324-2
If it would require an additional dependency on libsixel I would reject and close it as "won't implement" because I don't want to maintain another library that isn't widely used and well tested.
There's no third party dependency necessary, the code is builtin in xterm, it simply has to be enabled at compilation time, I merely linked libsixel as an example of the capabilities.
Enabling the compilation flag should bring no downsides other than slightly longer compilation time and final binary size ( and both really quite negligible ), no additional dependencies neither runtime or compile-time.