[Openicc] Color management in gimp - not really

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 04.04.05, 00:43 +0200 schrieb Sven Neumann:

> Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > A anecdote with GIMP development is, the team took a toolkit version 
> > change (gtk1 -> gtk2) to do the havily critizised major number change for 
> > GIMP-2.0.
> 
> Sorry, but that is wrong. The change to GIMP 2.0 was an incompatible

Incompatible plug-in API changes occured in GIMP stable before without an 
major version change. Version 1.0 and 1.2 plug-ins for instance are not 
compatible.

> change to the plug-in API. Since then, the GIMP 2.0 API has been kept
> compatible and will be kept compatible. That was the main reason for
> changing the major version number and I don't think this change has
> ever been heavily critizised.
> 
> > It was long promised that this special version change remains
> > reserved for GEGL integration. (GEGL was decided to support
> > selectable bit depths and colour spaces but will not been finished
> > soon.)
> 
> That is wrong as well. Nothing has ever been promised. The fact that
> an early roadmap used version numbers was a mistake. But who would
> take a roadmap as a promise? Development of a free software project
> depends on the interests of the developers. Since there are only very
> few developers interested in CM and higher color depths, development
> in this area is rather slow. Anyone who'd like to change this, can do
> so and the contributions will be very much welcomed.
> 
> Anyway, this is irrelevant to this list and I kindly ask you to stop
> spreading such misinformations.
> 
> 
> Sven
> 

regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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