[sldev] Using OS X Image I/O for jpeg200 handling?

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Michael Schlenker <schlenk at uni-oldenburg.de>
wrote:

> just wondered if it would be worth the time to investigate Apples Image I/O
> Framework for jpeg2000 handling for the open source viewer on OS X. Its
> basically the kakadu lib shipped with Apples OS, so should be better than
> libjpeg. (at least according to a comment in
> http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/2005/09/jpeg2000-cool-but-slow.html )


I don't see a lot of value in this. Linden Lab already has a KDU license, so
it adds little value to them. Not a lot of value to open source, OSX is
something of a minority platform, (everything is, next to Windows) open
source effort seems best spent on improving OpenJPEG. But I also see nothing
wrong with it. If it's shipped with OSX, it should fall under the 'system
libraries' exception in the GPL.


> Has there been any work in that direction?
>

Patches welcome. :) There's already some abstraction in the code to allow
switching between KDU and OpenJPEG, so plugging in support for Apple's
framework should be possible to do without disturbing things too much.
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