This vote should be held on general@ Vincent
On 20/09/12 10:16, mehdi houshmand wrote: > Hi All, > > I believe I've completed the work on XGC to allow restrictions to the I/O > capabilities, by default, obviously, the mechanisms haven't changed. I've > tried to address some of the suggestions made by the community, Jeremias' > in particular, about the ramifications of changing the APIs and as such > have left them as untouched as possible. I've done some clean up where > appropriate and hope you agree that the code is better now than it was > before. > > There are however some limitations, the JAI ImageIO JAR needs to be on the > class path when you want TIFF output. The non-JAI TIFF image encoding > system still does spurious I/O to use as scratch files, this has been left > untouched since the JAI route supports more TIFF types and is the default > opus operandi. (N.B.// The JAI method also does some scratch-file making > itself, but you've got to assume that the guys/girls at Sun would have > considered the implications of such behaviour.) > > Spiel aside I'll get the vote started +1 from me. > > Thanks > > Mehdi >
