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List:       gimp-developer
Subject:    Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6
From:       saulgoode () flashingtwelve ! brickfilms ! com
Date:       2007-10-26 10:31:28
Message-ID: 20071026063128.kgzmwd6bi84sookg () flashingtwelve ! brickfilms ! com
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A change in file formats should be postponed until a bump in the major  
version number takes place (per GNU coding standards?). But my  
proposal of adding parasites containing layer group meta-data to files  
saved in the current XCF standard is indeed merely an interim  
solution, permitting time for a new format to be decided upon (not an  
insignificant task in itself).

Quoting Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com>:

> On 10/26/07, saulgoode wrote:
>
>> Finally, there should be an effort to maintain integrity of the XCF
>> file format by converting between the core implementation of layer
>> groups and parasites attached to drawables during saves and loads of
>> XCF files (older GIMP versions would read the files but lose the layer
>> grouping information).
>
> IIRC, it was planned to nuke current XCF at some stage of development
> in favour of an XML based file format (XCF2, OpenRaster, whatever).


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