Re: [Gimp-developer] non-destructive editing and adjustment layers

[kcleung users sourceforge net]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Guillermo Espertino (Gez)
<gespertino gmail com> wrote:
> El 01/09/13 17:22, kcleung users sourceforge net escribió:
>
> > Okay..... so do you mean that any non-GEGL plugins or filters should
> > be treated as not 32-bit compatible and is therefore capable of
> > silently clipping data?
>
>
> What Alexandre is saying is that you won't have to worry about it when 2.10
> is out, because that version won't be released until the rest of the legacy
> stuff is ported to GEGL.
> Due to the lack of manpower, using developers time to address something that
> is only relevant during development is a waste of time and efforts.
> If you're using 2.9 you should know that you are using a development version
> and things aren't ready yet.
> You asked and your answers were replied. You have a list of plugins that
> aren't ported to GEGL yet, you know the effect, you know how to tell if they
> are/aren't ported and you know that the legacy plugins won't stay like that
> whenever GIMP 2.10 is released.
> Do you still think developers should use their time to code warnings about
> it?

Thanks for the clarification........ so if I were to use the trunk and
process files that have color channels larger than 8 bits, then I will
stick to GEGL plugins :)

I will now start looking at the code structure, and the non-GEGL list
list to see what I can do......