Re: [Gimp-developer] lcms high bit depth update: now that it works, adding and improving functionality

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:25 -0500, Elle Stone wrote:
> On 1/13/13, Michael Henning <drawoc darkrefraction com> wrote:
> > You misunderstood my idea. I don't want babl to get specific
> > conversions for different ICC profiles; I want a generic mechanism to
> > take any ICC profile and turn it into a babl format. Øyvind indicated
> > that this is similar to how indexed formats already work (take a
> > palette and turn it into a babl format), so this wouldn't need vast
> > amounts of new code.
> >
> Pippin's words were "Creating custom babl formats for specific ICC
> profiles is possible, and would take a similar form to how
> babl/GEGL/GIMP currently deals with indexed images." I interpreted
> that to mean one custom babl format per specific ICC profile, but
> maybe I misunderstood Pippin.

Just to clarify, that's exactly what he meant, and the formats
would be created dynamically, as GIMP needs them.

No time to respond to the rest right now :)

regards,
--mitch