FreeImage binaries

[Stéfan van der Walt]

Hi Zach

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pincus at yale.edu> wrote:
> For this we'd want an OS X dylib that's at least 32/64-bit, if not a four-way (intel/ppc 32/64). This should be pretty easy for me to make. We'd also want standalone 32- and 64-bit windows DLLs. And should we have anything for linux, or do we assume that those people can get FreeImage compiled manually or via a package manager easily enough?
>
> I could just package these up as "data" in a python module, and then point ctypes at the right lib based on run-time checks. Maybe silly to distribute extra binaries, but that might be the user-friendliest solution? Other feedback welcome of course.

I think distributing these is a good idea; but I'm a bit hesitant to
include the binaries in the source repo.  How about we modify the
bdist command to fetch these binaries from GitHub, and then store them
in their own repo?

Stéfan