Re: [Openexr-user] discreet to support exr????

[John Coldrick]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 10:02, Chad Ashley wrote:
> Does anyone know if Discreet plans to get behind Openexr for it's FFI
> systems including Lustre?

        I'm curious about this too.  I pushed really hard a few weeks ago to 
get some 
sort of response from them, but as usual they were non-committal.  I'm more 
interested, personally, in getting this happening on the new Linux Flints, 
and the "sales response" to me was that "well we can't do anything other than 
8 bit on Linux because of the graphics drivers", which was followed by me 
giving him a Most Evil Eye.  :)  I calmly explained that I've been doing 
floating point comp on Linux for some time now, thank you very much, and also 
using OExr via Houdini recently.  He backed off and suggested that more 
specifically it was *Discreet* getting their code working with the drivers on 
Linux that was more at issue, and it was dropped.  Alas, I fear the 8 bit 
only Flint is more a marketing decision than practical.
        It would be great to get them on board, nonetheless, for any of their 
products, but often their tying themselves to the hardware causes things like 
this to move slowly.  I'd love to hear any spurious gossip, press releases, 
etc.

        Cheers,

        J.C.


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