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    New script to generate OS X icon files. · b08895f0
    Simon Tatham authored
    The Xcode icon composer doesn't seem to exist any more in modern
    versions of Xcode, or at least if it does then it's well hidden and
    certainly doesn't live at the top-level path at /Developer where web
    pages still claim it can be found.
    
    There is a free software 'libicns' and associated command-line tools,
    but they're large, complicated, picky about the exact format of PNGs
    they get as input, and in any case a needless extra build dependency
    when it turns out the important parts of the file format can be done
    in a few dozen lines of Python. So here's a new macicon.py, and
    icons/Makefile additions to build a demo icon for OS X PuTTY, as and
    when I finally get it working.
    
    Also I've deleted the static icon file in the neglected 'macosx'
    source directory, because this one is better anyway - the old one was
    appalling quality, and must have been autogenerated from a single
    image in some way.
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    New script to generate OS X icon files.
    Simon Tatham authored
    The Xcode icon composer doesn't seem to exist any more in modern
    versions of Xcode, or at least if it does then it's well hidden and
    certainly doesn't live at the top-level path at /Developer where web
    pages still claim it can be found.
    
    There is a free software 'libicns' and associated command-line tools,
    but they're large, complicated, picky about the exact format of PNGs
    they get as input, and in any case a needless extra build dependency
    when it turns out the important parts of the file format can be done
    in a few dozen lines of Python. So here's a new macicon.py, and
    icons/Makefile additions to build a demo icon for OS X PuTTY, as and
    when I finally get it working.
    
    Also I've deleted the static icon file in the neglected 'macosx'
    source directory, because this one is better anyway - the old one was
    appalling quality, and must have been autogenerated from a single
    image in some way.