[Openexr-devel] Long Channel Names

[Lee Kerley]

I'm new to OpenEXR development, but I have a display driver for prman that 
writes out EXR files.  The problem is that when I output secondary outputs from 
my prman render the name of the channel get's quite long.  I've noticed in the 
code that there is a limit of 32 characters.  Is there any reason why this 
maximum name length is so short. I accept that in most circumstances that a 
channel name would normally be quite short, but in thius situation I need it to 
be longer.  I have altered the size of SIZE define in ImfName.h to 1024, in my 
own build, but would like to request that this change be included in further 
releases of OpenEXR.

On a more immediate note, are there any implications with me changing this 
variable to 1024 as opposed to it's default setting of 32?

Thanks

lee