Hi, On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 23:53 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: > The file plug-ins would not use these functions via the PDB because they > could use the library directly. The file plug-ins could as well use the functions via the PDB then. What's the benefit of linking to them? > That covers the "why". Regarding the "how", it depends... My long-term > goal is to move the metadata viewer/editor into the core (like other info > dialogs and so on) because it would be the only way to ensure that it > reflects the current state of the metadata while the image is being edited. I am somewhat reluctant to see such code in the core, or the core linking to it. Simply because experience shows that parsers aren't perfect and can crash. I wouldn't want to see the core crash because some camera manufacturer made a mistake and the camera creates images with corrupt metadata. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
