[Gimp-developer] proposal for libgimpmetadata API

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 23:53 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote:

> The file plug-ins would not use these functions via the PDB because they
> could use the library directly.

The file plug-ins could as well use the functions via the PDB then.
What's the benefit of linking to them?

> That covers the "why".  Regarding the "how", it depends...  My long-term
> goal is to move the metadata viewer/editor into the core (like other info
> dialogs and so on) because it would be the only way to ensure that it
> reflects the current state of the metadata while the image is being edited.

I am somewhat reluctant to see such code in the core, or the core
linking to it. Simply because experience shows that parsers aren't
perfect and can crash. I wouldn't want to see the core crash because
some camera manufacturer made a mistake and the camera creates images
with corrupt metadata.


Sven