Image Libraries

["Shead, Tim" <TShead ebay com>]

Y'all:

I've been reading all of the imlib vs. gdk-pixbuf vs. libart posts and
getting thoroughly confused.  I'm wondering if someone could explain these
libraries' relatioships with each other, Gnome, GTK+, etc.  Reason I ask is
that I'm "shopping around" for an image library for a large, portable (works
fine under Win32) GTK+ application.  Naturally, I'd like to stay as close to
the GTK+/GDK world as possible, but I'm concerned about large numbers of
library dependencies, etc.  Any thoughts?

Tim's Wish List:

* Read/write a large number of formats
* Portable between *nix / Win32
* Alpha channel support
* Minimum number of dependencies / easy to compile & deploy

Thanks in advance,
Timothy M. Shead
tshead@k-3d.com