Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, James Carlson wrote:
>
>> The issue with it being Volatile is that nothing can use it. It
>> doesn't matter how often you update it if the result is something that
>> isn't reliable.
>>
>
> If that is the case, perhaps someone should actually take a look at
> this small package and realize that perhaps there is not really that
> much to it and that the already huge existing user base will naturally
> act in opposition to spurious changes to the interface.
Here is a pretty good case for stability of dcraw:
http://www.outbackphoto.com/artofraw/raw_07/essay.html
> Thousands of people use dcraw without knowing it, as Bibble,
> BreezeBrowser, IrfanView, Conceiva, and the Adobe Camera Raw plugin
> all contain source code from dcraw. After six years and 1500 hours of
> unpaid labor, dcraw now supports fifty-eight cameras from seven
> different manufacturers, in only 2600 lines of C code.
I'd add ufraw to the list of programs which include dcraw source code.
> If calling
> the package 'Volatile' causes problems, then classify it as something
> else.
>
> http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/dcraw.1.html
>
> The interface to the program looks quite simple and unlikely to change
> what already exists due to adding support for more cameras.
>
> Bob
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