Natterer: Goat Invasion in GIMP

On his blog, Michael Natterer writes about some major progress in making GIMP work with the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL), which will allow GIMP to handle images with more than 8-bits-per-channel among other things. "About 5 weeks ago, I happened to pick up Øyvind Kolås, aka Pippin the Goatkeeper to stay at my place for about a week and do some hacking. After one day, without intending it, we started to do some small GEGL hacking in GIMP, just in order to verify an approach that seemed a good migration [strategy] for the future porting. [...] What was planned as a one week visit turned into 3 weeks of GEGL porting madness. At the time this article is written, about 90% of the GIMP application’s core are ported to GEGL, and the only thing really missing are GeglOperations for all layer modes."

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