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

[B. Nitz]

I agree that ufraw would be good to add in the future.  Ufraw uses dcraw
internally.  Since dcraw isn't a shared library, ufraw has to compile in
new versions of the dcraw source code.  It might be nice to fix that so
we don't end up maintaining both the dcraw embedded within ufraw and the
dcraw stand alone.


On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 21:14 +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> The problem is that RAW isn't a standard format. It's dumping all the
> information the sensor receives into the file, hence when new sensors
> get in the market their RAW files are different than the supported
> ones.
> 
> I'm very impressed how projects like dcraw, and my personal favorite
> ufraw can keep up to date. The vast majority of camaras that are not
> newer than a few months (or just the same sensor as a previous model)
> are supported.
> 
> I personally, not see any problem maintaining the code of this apps.
> But I would suggest adding ufraw to the team. ;) Very useful and easy,
> specially when used as a GIMP plugin.
> 
> Luis de Bethencourt
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2008 9:04 PM, Brian Nitz <Brian.Nitz at sun.com> wrote:
> > Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, James Carlson wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> > >
> > > If that is the case, perhaps someone should actually take a look at
> > > this small package and realize that perhaps there is not really that
> > > much to it and that the already huge existing user base will naturally
> > > act in opposition to spurious changes to the interface.
> > Here is a pretty good case for stability of dcraw:
> >     http://www.outbackphoto.com/artofraw/raw_07/essay.html
> > > Thousands of people use dcraw without knowing it, as Bibble,
> > > BreezeBrowser, IrfanView, Conceiva, and the Adobe Camera Raw plugin
> > > all contain source code from dcraw. After six years and 1500 hours of
> > > unpaid labor, dcraw now supports fifty-eight cameras from seven
> > > different manufacturers, in only 2600 lines of C code.
> > I'd add ufraw to the list of programs which include dcraw source code.
> >
> > >  If calling
> > > the package 'Volatile' causes problems, then classify it as something
> > > else.
> > >
> > > http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/dcraw.1.html
> > >
> > > The interface to the program looks quite simple and unlikely to change
> > > what already exists due to adding support for more cameras.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > > ======================================
> > > Bob Friesenhahn
> > > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
> > > GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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