[Bf-committers] TIFF support - submitted patch #2995

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Excellent! :)
I presume you've made this code wrapped in #ifdef for Linux only? Or do  
we now need to check on how the imbuf pipeline redirects to libtiff or  
to quicktime (on windows or osx)?

-Ton-

On 8 Sep, 2005, at 7:15, Jonathan Merritt wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> OK - the new patch is in.  I've created a Wiki page to describe the  
> dynamic loading mechanism:
>    http://wiki.blender.org/bin/view.pl/Blenderdev/TIFF
>
> I can see a new source of contention here in the python script I've  
> written (gen_dynlibtiff.py).  This script semi-automatically creates  
> the C file that does the dynamic loading as well as a header file.  It  
> should only need to be run if:
>    1. A programmer wants to add more functions to the dynamic API from  
> normal libtiff.
>    2. The libtiff API changes.
> Where does this script belong?  Should it be part of the build-process  
> or should it be kept aside and only run by a programmer specifically  
> working on libtiff stuff?  I'd vote for the latter, but if we're going  
> to be trying to do more dynamic loading of stuff in future then  
> perhaps it belongs in the build process.
>
> (Maybe there's a better, generic tool for doing this kind of thing?   
> If not, then maybe we should write one?! :-)
>
> Comments welcome again (round two! :-).
>
> Jonathan Merritt.
>
> PS - I found I couldn't delete the earlier files I'd submitted to the  
> patch tracker ("permission denied", despite being logged in the same  
> as when I submitted them).  Hopefully this does't cause too much  
> confusion.
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