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No, the jpegcrush functionality is implemented in C as an extension to libjpeg-turbo. But yes, I suppose a shell script would achieve roughly the same result.
by michaelmior 13y ago
No, the jpegcrush functionality is implemented in C as an extension to libjpeg-turbo. But yes, I suppose a shell script would achieve roughly the same result.
- kllrnohj 13y agoSo why wasn't this upstreamed to libjpeg-turbo? Why fork at all? libjpeg-turbo is still an actively maintained project after all...
- riquito 13y agoThey want to do much more, and with a fork you don't have to justify and discuss every single commit with the original maintainer. If you want to modify heavily something, a fork is the right approach.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- syntheticnature 13y agoMaintainer has different priorities, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349117