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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ http://fabricatorz.com/ +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) Sent from San Francisco, CA, United States _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
