[desktop-discuss] LSARC/2008/058 - dcraw

[James Carlson]

Lloyd L Chambers writes:
> In short, failure to aggressively update raw-file processing software  
> frequently leads to it being out of date within a year.  To me,  
> that's *much* more important than concerns about whether the  
> interface is 'volatile' or something else--a square peg in a round  
> hole issue IMO.

I agree that it likely needs to be updated quite frequently, but at
this point, that sounds more like a resource and business issue than
an architectural one.

The issue with it being Volatile is that nothing can use it.  It
doesn't matter how often you update it if the result is something that
isn't reliable.

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