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Image: Remove gpl gif implementation #6721

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to avoid depending on pillow just for our loading animation, created a
zip alternative, and replaced it for usage in all places.

to avoid depending on pillow just for our loading animation, created a
zip alternative, and replaced it for usage in all places.
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matham commented Feb 9, 2020

Is this the only implementation for gif (other than ffpyplayer)? If so, don't we need to go through a deprecation cycle?

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We also have the Pillow implementation, this is the only one we have without third party dependencies though.

  • It's quite buggy
  • It's GPL, which is a violation to distribute in an MIT package, nobody complained yet, but this is bad.

If we think we need to support gif out of the box, we should either make a dependency like Pillow or ffpyplayer mandatory, or shop/build a better implementation to include in kivy.

@tshirtman tshirtman merged commit 0fc04ca into master Feb 14, 2020
@tshirtman tshirtman deleted the remove_gif_python branch February 14, 2020 02:03
@matham matham added this to the 2.0.0 milestone Oct 28, 2020
@matham matham changed the title remove gpl gif implementation Image: Remove gpl gif implementation Dec 9, 2020
@matham matham added Component: core-providers kivy/core Notes: API-break API was broken with backwards incompatibality labels Dec 9, 2020
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