[pio-develop] netpbm, windows icon

[Roland C. <rc...@us...>]

Hello list,

I think I've found a solution for the dependency of Pioneers on netpbm:

Use a monospaced font for the next block:
<code>
distribution/   maintainer        Cygwin         other
user type       || Cygwin         || MinGW
source          svn || tarball    tarball only   svn || tarball
svg -> ico          yes               no             no
ico,rc -> o         yes               yes            no
link resource       yes               yes            no
make dist           yes               no             no
</code>

This table means:
* Non maintainers on non-Windows platforms do not need netpbm anymore, but=
=20
cannot make a tarball for distribution (which shouldn't be needed anyway)
* For Windows platforms: the distributed icons are used.
  (I've not found an easy way to generate them in MinGW yet)
* Maintainers can and must create the icons

In the configure script it will be like:
if maintainer_mode -> enable all
if windows -> enable RC compiler and link

In practice this will mean:
=2E/configure --enable-maintainer-mode
   All platforms: netpbm, RC compiler, etc required.
=2E/configure --enable-maintainer-mode --without-ms-icons
   For Windows platforms: Error.
   For non-Windows platforms: no netpbm, RC compiler etc required.
=2E/configure
   For Windows platforms: Enable RC compiler and linker.
   For non-Windows platforms: no netpbm, RC compiler etc required.

Did I forget anything?

Regards,
Roland Clobus