Re: [Gimp-developer] What is the file-gegl file type?

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 06/15/2016 10:38 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>
> > Oh, sorry. I was thinking of RGBE (Radiance HDR) actually :)
>
> And no, I wasn't :) Sorry about the noise.
>
> EXR was indeed loaded via file-gegl until 2013 when Mukund wrote a
> separate plugin for that. Saving EXR files is done via file-gegl
> though, apparently. So is loading/exporting WebP, as far as I can
> tell.

Hmm, I think our emails crossed. Anyway, the code does make it look like 
like WebP needs file-gegl (I don't see a separate plug-in file for 
webp), but I don't have any such files to check.

But I did try compiling GIMP without compiling the file-gegl plug-in, 
and was able to open and also export an OpenEXR file without problems. 
So it doeesn't look like file-gegl is needed for opening or exporting 
exr files (though now that you mention it, it definitely was needed in 
the past).

Elle