artemp/tickets2issues — Issue #629: Make JPEG dependency optional
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-11 15:28:45+00:00
State: open
Labels: Core_Library

Most Mapnik users rely on PNG output, even though Mapnik supports also writing to JPEG output. JPEG output is particularly useful for raster tiles, but for users that don't serve rasters (and will not in the future (#518) be interested in reading JPEG symbol files) being able to skip the jpeg dependency offers a small convenience.

The patch at #463 was originally provided with JPEG support commented, which originally prompted this idea.

Draft patch making JPEG support a SCons option (on by default) is attached for review.