Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding WebP Support to GIMP

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:00 PM, William Swartzendruber wrote:

>>> I am a computer science student at a university and this semester is
>>> my senior project.  I would like to add WebP support to The GIMP.  I
>>> would also like to expose some of the codec's more configurable export
>>> settings.  I intend to begin against libwebp-0.2 since it has alpha
>>> support and lossless encoding.
>>
>> Awesome initiative, thanks :) Would you like to start with existing code? :)
>
> I won't be able to use existing code.  The professor is worried that
> the project won't be hard
> enough as it is.

Well, I'm not so sure that from the project's point of view redoing an
existing work is much reasonable.

Could we perhaps interest you in something more urgent for the project?

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org