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kllrnohj
12y ago
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So why wasn't this upstreamed to libjpeg-turbo? Why fork at all? libjpeg-turbo is still an actively maintained project after all...
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syntheticnature
12y ago
Maintainer has different priorities, see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349117
riquito
12y ago
They 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.
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