On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:36:50PM +0100, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The possibility to save the data indepently of the image format in a
> separate file a good idea but doesn't speak against using parasites
> for metadata.
In fact, it's trivial to implement another Load/Save-Plug-In that
implements just this. It could also trivially define a dialog to edit this
parasite-metadata.
The problem is entirely mapping metadata to parasites, just as it would be
a problem mapping it to a non-standard API.
That's what should discussed.
> we already have a rudimentary parasite editor.
If you talk about the perl version - it was never finished because
obviously nobody uses it for anything else than debugging.
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