OK, I like your plan.  Would you care to do the two merges?

        -- lg


On Jun 24, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Jeremy Selan wrote:

>> 1. Merge into 0.10, or not?
> 
> I'd hate to set the precedent of breaking the external ABI in a stable
> build.  But, it's so early in the 0.10 lifetime that I'd hate to see
> them diverge so soon. (And I want to use this change in a stable 0.10
> build asap).
> 
> How about meeting half way?
> 
> We could tweak this commit a tiny bit (for 0.10 only), so we could
> maintain ABI compatibility with the last 0.10 version, but also have
> updated functionality.   The only API call that's changed is
> imagebufalgo::resize.  I would recommend we leave it signature alone
> for 0.10, and just start ignoring the filterwidth parameter.  The code
> for maketx would be unchanged.    (This is why I hate default args in
> C++, it would have been easier to have both the old and new signatures
> co-exist, but in this case its not an option).
> 
> I've mocked up the changes here, and confirmed it all works:
> https://github.com/jeremyselan/oiio/tree/js-filter-0.10
> 
> The other nice part of this approach is that the old signature is
> still forwards compatible with new code, so future master -> 0.10
> cherry picks should merge cleanly.
> 
> -- Jeremy
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/108
>> 
>> This eliminates the silly 'width' argument to maketx --filter : now you just 
>> specify the filter name, and it chooses the appropriate width.  Also 
>> augmented the Filter classes with some static methods that let an 
>> application query what filters are available and some vital stats about each 
>> of them (including a recommended width, whether it is scaling or windowing, 
>> and so on.), and some very minor cleanup to ImageBufAlgo::resize to 
>> eliminate a redundant parameter.
>> 
>> Oops, I forgot to post this to the mail list.  It's already got a LGTM from 
>> Jeremy, but I wanted to give others a chance weigh in.  There are actually 
>> two outstanding issues that might merit some discussion:
>> 
>> 1. Merge into 0.10, or not?  It's got a very minor change to the 
>> ImagBufAlgo::resize function (eliminated a redundant parameter) and of 
>> course a change to the command line arguments of maketx.  Of course, both 
>> are new items themselves, so maybe changing them is not going to cause pain 
>> to anyone.
>> 
>> 2. Right now, the same filter is used for both the MIPmap generation as well 
>> as the upscale to power of 2.  On one hand, in an ideal world you'd use 
>> different filters for these -- perhaps a lanczos3 for the MIP generation 
>> (downsampling) and Blackman-Harris or bspline for the upsampling.  But I 
>> don't know if you'd ever really notice a problem if you used the same for 
>> both, and the pow2 upsampling is both optional and not particularly 
>> recommended.  So I'm tempted to live with this limitation (same filter for 
>> both), but if somebody complains and has an example texture that it doesn't 
>> work well for, I can later add a --upresfilter or something to allow that to 
>> be separately specified.  Any objections?
>> 
>> --
>> Larry Gritz
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
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