Re: [Openexr-devel] Rate of development for OpenEXR and CTL?

[Piotr Stanczyk]

Hi Jonathan,

The OpenEXR pages have indeed been static of late. Regarding CTL, this 
is the link to the Academy pages:
http://www.oscars.org/science-technology/council/projects/ctl.html
which really is a gateway to (after reviewing license agreements):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ampasctl/
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll get the guys to update the website.

Ilm does internal builds of IlmBase and OpenEXR on a regular basis with 
a variety of compilers to make sure that there are no unresolved build 
(and test) issues. (we sync out internal source trees with the 
savannah/cvs ones pretty often) Of course, if you happen to come across 
a compiler / platform combination that is display incorrect behaviour 
please send that to the group.

Regarding future releases; we've had a number of targets in mind for a 
while now, at the very least a wrapping up of what is there in the head 
of the cvs tree. I hope to get some time allocated to do this in the 
near future.

Thanks,

Piotr

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/openexr/

Jonathan Day wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The OpenEXR website seems to be a little stagnant (the links to CTL on 
> www.oscars.com are broken - if you want it, it's on Sourceforge) and there's no 
> evidence of any new releases or bugfix releases since October 2007.
>
> Call it a hunch, but given the modifications to GCC and other compilers over 
> the past 3 years, I'm certain that even if the code had been perfect in 2007, 
> there will be something that that is either no longer really correct (a legacy 
> way of doing things) and perhaps does something unexpected, or breaks entirely.
>
> (The concept of "bit-rot" is actually valid, albeit described more in a comedic 
> way than in the actual dynamics. Correct but unmaintained code will effectively 
> accumulate errors, because language specs, standard function call semantics and 
> compiler-specific nuances will always diverge from whatever you started off with.)
>
> Is anyone maintaining OpenEXR and/or CTL on an unofficial site or maintaining a 
> bugfix patch, or is there a planned official release on the table?
>
> Jonathan Day
>
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