On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > At 1:47 PM +0200 8/14/03, Sven Neumann wrote: > >I'd like to mention that none of the proposed formats except the XML > >approach would be capable of supporting the stuff we want to add to GIMP > >with GEGL. > > Well, that pretty much settles that discussion... Not really, since that reasoning is based on an untruth. And even if it wasn't, it's a logical fallocy to assume that because no graph-capible proposal was made, that XML was the only possible way of representing a graph in a file format. > >According the library that reads and writes the new format, GEGL should > >provide this functionality. > > > > Requiring an application to incorporate all of GEGL in order > to read/write an XCF file is, in my opinion, a recipe for it not > getting used by other applications. (and I say this as one of those > other application developers). That is why I suggest both a lightweight library and gegl routines for it. Actually, gegl can use the lightweight library for the loading. Rockwalrus
