The baseline GEGL library will be exactly the baseline functionality needed to be able to something useful with the file,. compositing the layers, layer groups, and effect layers into a single image. And in that process handling the various kinds of layers (8bit, 16bit 16bit float, 32bit float, rgb, cmyk etc.)
Sure, if I don't already have that type of functionality in my own application that would be useful.
But let's say that I am Photoshop or ImageMagick, which already have layer (with effects), a compositing engine, etc. All I want is to load GEGL/GIMP data from disk into my own data structures. I do NOT want/need all of your functionality - just want to read the file!
Leonard -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:leonardr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://www.lazerware.com>
