Portable XFC
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
At 1:47 PM +0200 8/14/03, Sven Neumann wrote:
I'd like to mention that none of the proposed formats except the XML
approach would be capable of supporting the stuff we want to add to GIMP
with GEGL.
Well, that pretty much settles that discussion...
Not really, since that reasoning is based on an untruth. And even if it
wasn't, it's a logical fallocy to assume that because no graph-capible
proposal was made, that XML was the only possible way of representing a
graph in a file format.
According the library that reads and writes the new format, GEGL should
provide this functionality.
Requiring an application to incorporate all of GEGL in order
to read/write an XCF file is, in my opinion, a recipe for it not
getting used by other applications. (and I say this as one of those
other application developers).
That is why I suggest both a lightweight library and gegl routines for it.
Actually, gegl can use the lightweight library for the loading.
Rockwalrus