To continue this discussion: I would just like to let you all know that I am starting to draft some ideas for libora (that I will start to develop soon if I will get some free time). Yes, I will still work on MyPaint gui but as we are now in string freeze there is not much that I can do.
I am gathering my ideas here: http://wiki.mypaint.info/User:Lukacu/LibOra ... so everybody can contribute ideas. We can also move the document somewhere else so that it will not look so mypaint oriented. cheers, On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Luka Čehovin <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I think that the only issue is the number of dependencies. C and > C++ mix just fine, > but the QtCore seems a bit of a nonstandard requirement for a library > that should > have a small footprint and should be gui framework agnostic. > Reasonable requirements > in this case are zlib, some small and general xml library, libpng ... > I would not like > to drag Gnome or GTK stuff in it as well. > > cheers, > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thursday 31 December 2009, Luka Čehovin wrote: >> >>> Regarding speed: perhaps now is then the time to start planning >>> libora. I am not sure if any big player would consider using ora >>> without some fast IO implementation ... and apparently there is none >>> at the moment. >> >> Libora is a good idea. I proposed to nlnet (a Dutch non-profit that funds >> interoperability work in free software) that I get funded to create such a >> lib. There are some issues around the idea, though. For instance, gimp will >> only start using a library if it's written in C, I guess -- where my first >> choice would be C++ based on QtCore :-). Then, the spec isn't really >> finalized >> yet, although thanks to the MyPaint project, it is at least moving. Finally, >> doing a good image loading lib is hard, I think! >> >> -- >> Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mypaint-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss >> > > > > -- > Luka Čehovin > http://luka.tnode.com > -- Luka Čehovin http://luka.tnode.com _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
