Re: [Openexr-user] Questions for more experienced users

[John Coldrick]

On Friday 23 February 2007 12:18, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
> Although I know this is off-topic, I understand
> what John Coldrick is saying.. however as an
> application development who's had to deal with Tiff,
> the only real basic interop is the LZW patent,
> and some companies like Mental Images who (while
> selling software for thousans of dollars) refused to
> support it.  Personally I've had interop problems
> everytime we upgraded our OpenEXR version. It's just goes
> along with adding new features.  Recently, apps have
> needed a libtiff upgrade for the new floating point
> compression scheme, however prior to that it hadn't
> changed in 10 years.

        Yah, the problem isn't really about the patent or some sort of constant 
changing by the Powers That Be(altho at least one person on the list has been 
taking it that way).  It's more real world than that - it's the in-the-field 
reality of the way that numerous app developers have been releasing tiff 
support.  In theory, everyone follows the standards, all is well.  In 
reality, some of them, as Deke alludes to, have endless issues.  I can't 
explain why tiff in particular is plagued with these problems(probably it's 
sheer popularity), but it is nonetheless.

        These may be referred to by some as "ignorance and historical accidents 
", 
but the rest of us call it working with applications in the field.

        Cheers,

        J.C.

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