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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
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
For important projects like this (libjpeg, libpng and others) it would make sense if there was sort of place to get all of them apart from mirrors. What am I saying, that place[0] exists. Developers shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of hosting their code if they don't want to or don't wish to weather the expense. It certainly seems in this case they couldn't pay for self-hosting (or friend-hosting or whatever thi…
I won't use github for my own projects because I don't agree with their politics. (If you're ok with them, good for you. I won't stop you.) Mandating github for everybody is a Bad Idea.
I am receptive to this kind of argument, I am honestly curious for specifics.
The real issue is that a lot of people rely on this and nobody is willing to put anything back toward it.
Apparently we have learned nothing from the OpenSSL debacle.
Seems like we've had organizations that house ideas for the public good for centuries now. Why not involve libraries in the effort? They could keep a "master" copy and github.com, gitlab.org, SF.com, or whoever else comes next can host development versions.
A potentially brilliant idea. I wish I had a clue how to follow up on it. Perhaps someone else here might!
For important projects like this (libjpeg, libpng and others) it would make sense if there was sort of place to get all of them apart from mirrors. What am I saying, that place[0] exists. Developers shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of hosting their code if they don't want to or don't wish to weather the expense. It certainly seems in this case they couldn't pay for self-hosting (or friend-hosting or whatever thi…
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
.PSD is tightly tied to Photoshop's internals, and .xcf is tightly tied to Gimp's internals. (The Gimp core developers explicitly recommend against using .xcf as an interchange format, even though the format has a fairly complete publicly available spec.) I've seen .gif images with multiple frames used as images with layers, but that forces every layer to have the same resolution, and of course limits you to an 8-bit color depth.
Supposedly the Gimp and Krita devs are collaborating on a new interchange format that will support things like layers, but I haven't heard any news about that in years.
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I won't use github for my own projects because I don't agree with their politics. (If you're ok with them, good for you. I won't stop you.) Mandating github for everybody is a Bad Idea.
What do you disagree with? I am receptive to this kind of argument, I am honestly curious for specifics.
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Remember sunsite.unc.edu? Sourceforge? Both were the gonna-be-around-forever source code distribution points of their day.
> Remember sunsite.unc.edu? That's a throwback. I looked it up and apparently UNC's Sunsite turned into http://www.ibiblio.org/about/ There are a couple of other Sunsites still up. This one looks like it has not been updated since 1997: http://sunsite.ubc.ca/