[GEM-dev] how close are we...

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

chris clepper wrote:
>>
>> ok, so we have done double work...
>> my [pix_*NEW] objects (video/movie) do (hopefully, not quite sure 
>> about movie
>> right now) support something like "color rgba" and "color yuv" messages.
>> they also have a "color grey" message (which i found very handy sometimes)
> 
> 
> i forgot to say that my changes were to the old pix_filmDarwin way of 
> loading films.  the old method is in good enough shape to transfer to 
> pix_filmNEW i suppose.  is it your intention to have the pix_filmNEW 
> included with the next release?

personally, i would like to have the very next release rather sooner 
than later.
so wouldn't enforce the pix_filmNEW and friends for gem-0.888,
since it should be transparent for the user anyhow.

> 
>> don't know, but i guess the symbolic reference "rgba"/"yuv"/"grey" 
>> might be
> 
>> more intuitive then 0/1/?
> i fully agree with this.  how about 'colorspace rgb/yuv/grey'?

ok, will change it, then

>
> sure.  at this point, i would rather have the release come sooner 
> without those features than later with them.
so we go d'accord
> 
>> >
>> > What does everyone else's TODO list look like right now?
>>
>> Gem is sometimes quite peculiar when developing patches under linux.
> 
>> however, it runs rockstable in, say, installations.
> 
> 
> are those usually pd crashes?  i had a whole string of those for a while 
> a month or two ago, but they seem to have stopped.

unfortunately i cannot really say, whether they have stopped or not.
in may/june they certainly appeared.
then i did a gem-patching-performance in late july and it never ever did 
think of crashing (but things were quite simplistic -- no pix_ or whatever)

mfg.a.rd
IOhannes