Prepare LibTIFF Tools Removal
I wonder which tools should continue to be provided as "unsupported" and which can be moved to the archive, as was done in 2016. I understood that only tiff2pdf and tiff2ps (apart of tiffinfo and tiffdump) are requested for further distributions.
Also, I would remove the "-i" option (ignore errors) in all tools in "unsupported".
List updated 24.07.23 to summarize discussion up to now.
tools/
tiffinfo.c
tiffdump.c
tiffcp.c
tiffset.c
tiffsplit.c
tools/unsupported/
tiff2pdf.c
tiff2ps.c
archive/tools/
fax2ps.c
fax2tiff.c
pal2rgb.c
ppm2tiff.c
raw2tiff.c
rgb2ycbcr.c
thumbnail.c
tiff2bw.c
tiff2rgba.c
tiffcmp.c
tiffcrop.c
tiffdither.c
tiffgt.c
tiffmedian.c
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The tools documentation will be moved to archive/doc/tools.
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All tests related to moved tools (e.g tiffcrop-xx.sh) will also be moved to archive/test and test scripts (test/CMakeLists.txt and test/Makefile.am) adapted.
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tiffcp.c will be used to have the possibility for tests with codecs. Some tests will be added.
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Version set to 4.6.0 but SO version can stay.
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For CMake the option “tiff-tools-unsupported” is added to compile the unsupported tools and install them in bin/unsupported.
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The same is done for Automake. (I would need help with this).