Re: Question about XCF format
From: Tor Lillqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:02:43 +0300 (FLE Daylight Time) I got now several emails from users with the wish to add XCF reading support in my viewer. I don't know if that is a good idea. XCF is really the GIMP's own private format for saving images between editing sessions, it is not intended for interoperability with other applications. Or what do you folks on gimp-developer think? The last thing the world needs is more undocumented, proprietary file formats. I realize that "proprietary" has a subtly different meaning from the closed source world, but it's the same idea. It does nobody any good if the file can't be read without firing up the Gimp.
Re: Question about XCF format
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:21:35 +0200 From: Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, in the future, when the format *might* (or might not...) be extended so it is easily mmapable (large images) or aquires other similar features, the idea of "reading/writing xcf images form outside the gimp" might become totally unfeasible. Why? If the format's specified well enough, why shouldn't it be possible for it to be accessed? -- Robert Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
Re: Question about XCF format
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 05:39:45PM -0400, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the idea of "reading/writing xcf images form outside the gimp" might become totally unfeasible. Why? If the format's specified well enough the format is and will always be specified well enough.. why shouldn't it be possible for it to be accessed? Because it's senseless in most cases. If, on the other hand, the need arises anybody can add read (or write) support to his program(s). -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |
