Krita status and release goals

[Cyrille Berger]

On Monday 19 March 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Cyrille Berger wrote:
> >> - libpsd (photoshop import)
> >> 	who: Cyrille Berger
> >> 	status: unknown
> >
> > status: postponed until at least 2.1, I think it will be changed to a
> > psd2odr project.
>
> FWIW, I would find a working (preserves "special" layers, especially
> color layers, effects, text layers, etc) PSD importer/convertor
> EXTREMELY valuable. It'll be a real bummer to not have PSD import in 2.0
> though. :-(
>
> (I'd love to help, but don't know if I would be able to find time :-(.)

There is a few options for that one:
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/psdlite/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpsd/ (I just found this one when looking 
for the previous) and it looks pretty cool
- refactor the scribuse importer to provide a library

But still if the final solution is to use one of the above libraries, as they 
are pretty young I had rather wait a little bit to see how they evolve. I 
don't want krita to depend on a dead library, and I don't want to rewrite the 
PSD code in a year or two because of that.

-- 
Cyrille Berger