Thanks for your reply, Bob, had no idea you were watching us. :)
On 3/2/11 16:10 , Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Today's computers come with quite a lot more RAM and people have become used to dealing with raw digital camera files and 16-bit/sample TIFF files.
Indeed, for 16-bit TIFFs from DSLRs it makes a big difference, not to mention in science, and even my netbook can deal with the 16-bit version without any problems. For now, I can just build the GraphicsMagick binaries myself from the Debian sources, it's pretty fast. Rebuilding Octave is a different story.
It seems unlikely that Debian can afford to displace the existing 8-bit package since it would break existing dependencies. A parallel installable GraphicsMagick Q16 package (with renamed shared libraries and headers path) seems like the best path forward. Unfortunately, the GraphicsMagick build does not currently support alternate names for the shared libraries and headers path.
Is it a lot of work to implement this? I can volunteer some help, if the Debian maintainer would go along and generate two binary packages. I think most (all?) binary-based Linux distributions only include 8-bit GraphicsMagick, and it's a pity: the difference in quality is quite large.
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