On Thu 27-May-2010 at 15:29 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
We had a really good BOF session on OpenRaster today. More than twenty people joined and we had a wide-ranging yet still focussed discussion. Here's a short report on what we discussed. Jon, Martin and me are going to edit the spec accordingly today (or at least this weekend) and then put it up here again for comments.
Here it is, as short bullet-points:
[snip]
* Versioning: a possible future extension.
Sorry I wasn't there on Thursday, but versioning is something that really appeals to me.
As I understand it the openraster format is to be implemented as a ZIP file containing binary files and XML in a folder structure (much like ODF). If applications could optionally read and write this as a 'real' folder structure on the filesystem, it would allow some nice stuff:
I could open one of my 2 gigabyte multilayer images, change a layer attribute, save, and all that would need to be written to disk would be a bit of XML.
A multi-file structure would fit into existing version control systems much better than a single ZIP file.
Bundling this structure into a 'normal' openraster file for transport/archiving would be easily done.
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