[CREATE] OpenRaster reference library - libora

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Wed Jan 13 18:26:49 PST 2010


This is very cool. Yes, basically waiting on better implementations,
so ask a lot of questions here if you see problems or needed
complexity in certain areas.

Cheers!

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Luka Čehovin <luka.cehovin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Luka and I am a mypaint developer (at least I think of me
> as one, even though not much of my work had been accepted to the
> master branch so far :) ).
>
> For a few weeks there has been some discussion on mypaint list and irc
> channel about a C library for OpenRaster IO to speed up the
> saving/loading process for applications using OpenRaster and perhaps
> to increase adoption of the standard ... I did some investigation
> regarding libpng and I think that think that several improvements can
> indeed be done regarding speed and memory usage (at least for
> mypaint). I have been advised to move this discussion to this list and
> to the Create wiki and this is what I have done. I have created a wiki
> page ( http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenRaster/Reference_Library
> ) for brainstorming ideas and formulating the API. I am (at the
> moment) trying to implement the functionality needed by mypaint ... so
> I am a bit biased in this aspect. I hope that some developers of other
> applications will join the effort as we may all benefit from it.
>
> The problem that I see at the moment is that (on the wiki at least)
> the standard seems to be unfinished ... please correct me if I am
> wrong. It is very complex in some aspects and very undetermined in
> other. My idea is to start with simple core functionality (things,
> needed by the applications that already use OpenRaster) and then
> expand if needed.
>
> cheers,
> --
> Luka Čehovin
> http://luka.tnode.com
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