[CREATE] OpenRaster reference library - libora

[Luka Čehovin]

Great. So I have started the development of libora on gitorious
(http://gitorious.org/libora) and committed some initial code to start
the development ... also check the wiki page of the library for
details. ... I am not planning to develop everything that is written
in the current "specification" ... because a lot of things are really
not defined that well. Instead I would like to propose to focus on
important things that everyone needs at the moment and make this the
part of first version of the OpenRaster format. Then go on from there.

cheers,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> 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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Luka Čehovin
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