[CREATE] gbr brush format bumped

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Wed Mar 14 01:11:10 PDT 2007


On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 08:37 +0100, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > Therefore the GBR brush format is bumped to version 4. Is this version of
> > GBR allready in use or still free?
>
> The GIMP Brush format (GBR) has never been free for extension by other
> projects. We have asked the Cinepaint developers several times to use
> their own format instead of doing incompatible changes to the GBR
> format. When the last change had happened, we bit the apple and adopted
> the GIMP brush loader code to handle the changed format. But please
> don't do this mistake again. Please change the file extension and the
> file header and create your own brush format.

Every app its own brush format sounds silly to me. We'd much better choose a 
new extension (.cbf for Create Brush Format?) and use that in Cinepaint, 
Krita and any other application that is interested in sharing resources.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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