Re: [Jpeg-users] gallery2 outstanding security bugs -- Abondoned by Berninger?

[Mathieu M. <mat...@gm...>]

'lo there.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Tom Lane <tg...@re...> wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn <bfr...@si...> writes:
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>> CCing them.  libjpeg SourceForge team, what is the current status of
>>> libjpeg development?
>
>> [ There's nothing happening... ]
>
> [ digs in mail logs... ]  Not long ago I got some email from one
> mat...@gm... telling me somebody was trying to ramp
> up libjpeg development again.  I assumed this was referring to the
> sourceforge project, but now I realize it wasn't.  I didn't save
> the email, so all I've got left is the sender address scraped from
> logs ...

Devpt are happening here: http://jpeg.sf.net.
I created this sf.net project back then when looking for info on IJG +
lossless patch. I was afraid info would get lost so I simply gather
all JPEG implementation there (IJG 6b, lossless patch, JPEG-LS, jasper
...). I was only very recently pointed to libjpeg sf.net project
(which was created after mine).

There hasn't been much discussion on the jpeg ML:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jpeg-users

I guess we all have different goals. My sole interest is to support
all kind of JPEG encoding as found in DICOM. My sole interest in
jpeg1x/ijg 6c is that AFAIK it is compatible with the previous
arithmetic encoder but is patent free. I tried working with the
debian-med people to prepare a libjpeg6c debian package ... maybe one
day.

I have even started supporting JPEG-LS within the IJG codec, but my
laptop was stolen around that time, and I never tried again. But it
would be nice if some guru out there had some time to spent on the
venerable IJG codec to support the different JPEG specifications :)

Thanks & Regards
-- 
Mathieu