Base krita on ILMs image library OpenEXR?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 22:07, Roger Larsson wrote:
> When working with the source for krita my feeling is that a lot work
> will be needed before the image infrastructure will be top notch.
>
> So I looked around a little for image libraries - I found OpenEXR
> kdelibs use it if installed in kimgio
> kdegraphics uses it if installed in kfile

What does OpenEXR do? Krita's use of ImageMagick for import/export is more or 
less a stop-gap measure, but one that seems to work well. Replacing Krita's 
core -- the tile manager, painter and paint device would mean yet another 
redesign; the fourth or fifth in five years, and I wouldn't really like to go 
through that again. Besides, the fun thing with the current core is that it's 
extensible enough to add weird things that are impossible with generic image 
libraries.

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