Re:WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)
by retrocryptid on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:06PM
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Or you could just use the libsixel package. Downloading libraries isn't unknown to developers (thinking about `apt-get install libncurses5-dev libsixel-dev` or the like.) Or sysadmins: `apt-get install libncurses5` or `apt-get install libsixel`.
Re:WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)
by georgia_peach on Monday July 18, 2022 @11:36PM
(#32147262)
&& find out how to get it on OSes that aren't debian-based
&& find a decent FFI wrapper if my app isn't in C-land
&& read the docs
&& static link hassles so I don't have to sort-out dynamic-link hassles for every platform
|| round-up a collection of dynamic libsixel libs & figure out how to bundle them with my script if I'm not using a compile-to-machine-code language
vs
b64 := base64.Encode(myImg)
fmt.Printf("\x1b]1337;inline=1;size=%d:%s\n", len(b64), b64)
From a dev perspective, it's a lot easier to base64 an image you already have, with a base64 that's already in your stdlibs, than to scour github for a passable sixel library to pre-rasterize that jpeg & reformat it as sixel. I say this as someone who's written a sixel conversion library.
> competing formats
It's not a very old format, yet already supported on 4-5 terminals last I checked.