[Rawstudio-dev] alternative library for decoding raw formats

[Gianluca Sforna]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Lutz! <lutz1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've a question, just to understand if "it's possibile to have...?". Do
> u think it could be useful/possible a "Raw library to use..." selector
> in the option panel ?

With enough time to code, nothing is impossible but I am not sure that
is an optimal solution.
In fact, what a user want is to load a file; if we can use N different
libraries because that way we can cover more formats, that is good but
IMHO it should be done without user intervention.

I don't think I'm going to be impressed by a workflow like:

1. open file -> fail -> change library in menu -> goto 1


> I think that we'll never have a perfect
> raw-library for all possible formats, maybe, in the future, each library
> will be optimized and tested only for some formats...

I think this is why it is important not to pick a well maintained one.
If it's maintained, a missing format is not a problem...

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