Libtiff goes offline

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Post by hk__2 » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 10:40 PM UTC

Libtiff goes offline
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#2

Post by kevin_thibedeau » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 11:29 PM UTC

Seems like it's time to host it on a DVCS service so the problem won't be so disruptive again.

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Post by japaget » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 11:36 PM UTC

The code is now being hosted at http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/ with a mirror site at http://libtiff.maptools.org/ .

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Post by CydeWeys » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #2

Seems like it's time to host it on a DVCS service so the problem won't be so disruptive again.

Yeah. It's still on CVS. May as well throw it up on GitHub like every other open source project. That doesn't have to be its only home on the web, but at least it would always be available there. The main open source project I work on (Pywikibot) isn't primarily hosted on GitHub, but it is mirrored there.

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Post by rilut » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 11:43 PM UTC

because @libtiff is already taken on Github, I think libtiff.gitlab.io is okay enough

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Post by japaget » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 11:50 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #2

Seems like it's time to host it on a DVCS service so the problem won't be so disruptive again.

Github mirror is at https://github.com/vadz/libtiff .

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Post by banachtarski » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 12:20 AM UTC

Tiff? That is a format I haven't heard in a long time.

edit: to everyone replying. TIFF is awful. We have lossless compression now (read PNG) which is at least a billion times better. We shouldn't use it for anything in this day and age. Hell, just DEFLATE your TIFF and call it a new format. It will be better than TIFF

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Post by TylerE » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 12:22 AM UTC

banachtarski wrote: post #7

Tiff? That is a format I haven't heard in a long time. edit: to everyone replying. TIFF is awful. We have lossless compression now (read PNG) which is at least a billion times better. We shouldn't use it for anything in this day and age. Hell, just DEFLATE your TIFF and call it a new format. It will be better than TIFF

Still run into it with things like patents. It was the goto for a long time for scanned imagery.

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Post by archildress » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 12:27 AM UTC

Thankful for libtiff's role in the PSP exploit community many years ago. :)

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Post by cooper12 » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 12:30 AM UTC

banachtarski wrote: post #7

Tiff? That is a format I haven't heard in a long time. edit: to everyone replying. TIFF is awful. We have lossless compression now (read PNG) which is at least a billion times better. We shouldn't use it for anything in this day and age. Hell, just DEFLATE your TIFF and call it a new format. It will be better than TIFF

It's commonly used as an archival format since it's not lossy like jpeg.