A change in file formats should be postponed until a bump in the major version number takes place (per GNU coding standards?). But my proposal of adding parasites containing layer group meta-data to files saved in the current XCF standard is indeed merely an interim solution, permitting time for a new format to be decided upon (not an insignificant task in itself). Quoting Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 10/26/07, saulgoode wrote: > >> Finally, there should be an effort to maintain integrity of the XCF >> file format by converting between the core implementation of layer >> groups and parasites attached to drawables during saves and loads of >> XCF files (older GIMP versions would read the files but lose the layer >> grouping information). > > IIRC, it was planned to nuke current XCF at some stage of development > in favour of an XML based file format (XCF2, OpenRaster, whatever). _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
