Re: [Gimp-developer] Maintaining buffers in a custom format in GIMP for EXR support

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:

> Because babl has no support for chromaticities, GIMP would need to
> provide extension code to babl, that can convert these custom formats to
> a working space by maintaining a map from the format's name to a struct
> chromaticities and registering additional conversions with every format,
> where the format name is passed as user data. Such extensions may last
> for the lifetime of the app process.

A somewhat unrelated question... With proposed changes, would the
plugin be able to handle loading, then exporting single-channel
greyscale EXR files?

Alex