The work has a name now — the Asset Bridge — for commits, PR titles, branches
(feat/asset-bridge-p<n>) and conversation. Protocol number stays 8 and the file
stays docs/link/v8.md.
§4.4 closes the last real open question rather than deferring it to phase 0, and
takes all three answers instead of choosing one. ServUO targets net48, so a Linux
host runs it under Mono, and Mono's System.Drawing is a thin layer over
libgdiplus — which §4.2 put in the decode path, not just the encode. So on Linux
it is a hard prerequisite for art. Cliloc and atlas import are unaffected; neither
touches pixels. Windows hosts need nothing at all.
It is now written down as: a SHARD_PREREQS.md entry, a doctor check in the
installer, and a named NO_IMAGING status when it is missing, in the same family
as the cliloc reader's COMPRESSED — never a stack trace, never a 500. Install
routes per distro are in the section, apt-get install libgdiplus being the
normal one.
One fact recorded because depending on something unmaintained should be a
conscious act: github.com/mono/libgdiplus was ARCHIVED in March 2025 and is
read-only. Distributions still package and patch it, so installing it today is
supported and ordinary — but it is the strongest long-term argument for moving
extraction off System.Drawing eventually, and phase 4's UOP reader is written
without it so that door stays open.
§17 restructured: three settled items kept because each changes numbers
elsewhere, and one genuinely open question (the default audience) that does not
block starting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
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