[Kde-imaging] extragear/libs/kipi-plugins/rawconverter[POSSIBLY UNSAFE]

[Aurelien Gateau]

Le Mercredi 11 Octobre 2006 11:02, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 10:53, Aurelien Gateau wrote:
> > >> and if, as you said, there are a >> lot of people who want to have
> > >> libdcraw why not to implement it? > > Because it very complicated to
> > >> do (:=))). Look in dcraw.c for example.
> >
> > dcraw.c + dcrawiface.cpp could be considered to be libdcraw :-).Am I
> > wrong?
>
> Not exactly, because dcraw.c is compiled to give and external binary
> program named "kipidcraw". In fact it's dcraw but fully tested with the
> plugin.
>
> The dcrawiface is a class witch invoque the kipidcraw binary program using
> the right options. Of course this interface can be used with recent dcraw
> version, but it's not a real library witch include the dcraw
> implementation.

Oh I see. Anyway it would be possible to make it act in a more library-like 
way by calling its main function ourself: instead of forking to call 
kipidcraw, call main(...) from your C++ file. But I guess you would have to 
use threads in this case, so it's probably too much work.

Aurélien