[Digikam-devel] exiv2 and l10n

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---- Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at kdemail.net> escribió: 
> On Friday 10 March 2006 11:38 am, you wrote:
> > ---- Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at kdemail.net> escribió:
> > > Andreas, in the future (after to have released digiKam 0.9.0-beta1), i
> > > would to contribe to exiv2 library to create new file format parsers like
> > > MRW for example. How we can work together ?
> > >
> > > Gilles
> >
> > Well, then I think it's better if I wai" for you to implement NEF support
> > at the same time you implement MRW, ok?
> >
> 
> Sure. After to have study how to start a new RAW file parser, this is my 
> plan :
> 
> - In first we need to do/study TIFF/EP file format. To do a new read only 
> parser, we can use Digikam::DMetaLoader class as well. I have alredy started 
> this one about TIFF to load any IPTC metadata. Exif still to do. Look in my 
> code for more information. Nota : i think that we need to use the last stable 
> libtiff 3.8.0. Right ?
> 
> - Doing a read only parser in DMetadata is a first stage and not the last. 
> When you have done that you can use this code to make a new advanced Exiv2 
> parser in read/write mode. The advantage to use DMetaloader in first is that 
> you can experiment easily the loader code accordinly with the file format to 
> decode. The result is directly visible into metadata sidebar in digikam.
> 
> - After to have done a TIFF/EP parser, others parser for RAW files format 
> based on TIFF/EP (NEF, MRW, etc.) can be done using a part of existing 
> implementation.
> 
> Fix me if i'm wrong... (:=)))
> 
> Gilles

All is right for me :-).

Paco