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From: Ullrich Koethe (koethe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-17 20:39:59
Joel de Guzman wrote:
> Lubomir Bourdev wrote:
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>>This is why in GIL we allow the type of the result to be specified
>>explicitly upon invoking the operation. Promotion traits can at best be
>>useful for a reasonable default, but even then we feel that they belong
>>in boost::type_traits and not in an image library, as the problem
>>generalizes beyond images.
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> I agree. I am not quite fond of monolithic libraries that do everything.
> Promotion traits and clamping, for example, can also be useful for, say,
> signal processing of audio, among other things.
>
True. But on the other hand, one has to control the number of external
dependencies -- if a potential user must install 5 or 10 other libraries
first, he might quickly loose interest.
In image processing, one wants at least libjpeg, libtiff, libpng (which in
turn requires zlib), perhaps a fourier transform library, possibly boost,
a linear algebra library (for warping and curve fitting), a GUI library
(which often already comes with incompatible image import/export
functionality) and so on -- there is certainly a trade-off between
internal and external solutions. Of course, there are platforms where
installation is easy, but you want to be general.
Regards
Ulli
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