Discussion
If anyone wants to muck around, the #Emacs source tree still has a bunch of XPM images, and more or less assumes that -lXpm will work.
It already supports PNG, too. Maybe convert the XPM to PNG?
(bigger project: make emacs use glycin for sandboxed image loading on Linux)
Things that blew my mind today about Emacs:
* It requires at least librsvg 2.14, which is from 2006, which is when rsvg_handle_get_dimensions() was introduced. That function was deprecated in 2.52, in 2021. If available, Emacs will use all the new APIs. There is #ifdef hell in there.
* src/image.c is 13K lines of code.
* Emacs still uses debbugs.
* The first commit is from 1985, but the first hundreds of commits are weird. It normalizes in 1991.
* And Savannah still uses cgit.
I had this side project to normalize the old RCS/CVS history for a lot of the early #GNU programs into Git. I think maybe my retirement hobby will be to pick that up.
Also, There is a set of “lost tapes” — open-reel magnetic tapes that had the 1984-circa 1994 early GNU backups – a goldmine of history. When I worked at FSF, we sent a giant box to a volunteer to bring them onto modern disks, & AFAIK the volunteer ghosted & no one knows where they are. 😕
The two times (I think?) GNOME has changed VCS, from cvs -> svn -> git there was a small, dedicated team of people basically writing custom tooling to do it (or adapting tools to do that), and there are SO MANY SPECIAL CASES. A bunch of repos have funny commits near the beginning, and then they settle down and appear normal.
¹There may have been YA RCS-like one inbetween.
my favorite emacs fun fact is that it undumps -- basically breathes life into a core dump in order to avoid doing a large amount of slow initialization work. or at least it used to, I don't follow this...
Undumping is so cool! A bunch of lazy initialization bullshit would go away with undumping, for compiled regexes and all that.
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