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Foremost this release finally includes a fix for the little mistake I made in
the Makefile regarding the order of arguments passed to cc which package
managers had to fix with a small patch. It now also compiles on OpenBSD
without problems.
Apart from that, I made error reporting much more consistent by putting
everything into util.c, which makes the code much more readable, and
cleared up all LICENSE matters and minor details in the build system.
At this point, farbfeld is very stable and unless another tool is added
the codebase in general is very low on the Kelvin scale right now.
Thanks for all the feedback!
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http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.11.html
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The tool-specific flags were LDLIBS and not LDFLAGS, because we specify
the libraries we want to link in, not flags to the linker itself.
The order was broken as it didn't allow -Wl,--as-needed or other things
highly dependent on the order of arguments.
I also wanted to add an explicit .c.o suffix rule. This way, it is
clearer what is happening in the Makefile and the form of compilation
output is controllable.
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This is more or less a refactoring release, but with deep changes in the
tools that I was hoping to look into for a long time.
The codebase is in a very consistent state now, also thanks to the
introduction of a set of common utility-functions.
What really makes me think is the fact that it takes so many iterations
and a high level of detail to get the library handling and I/O right.
It just makes you wonder how much software is out there that is full
of little subtle bugs that might blow up in your face some day.
Thanks for all the feedback!
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instead of per-tool-settings.
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We are using stdint.h, which is a C99 feature. Syntactically, the code
is C89 though.
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Thanks Hiltjo for the feedback! GNUisms need to be avoided like a
plague, even if it means having to be a little more creative.
Strict POSIX compliance means that I just worked within the bounds of
the POSIX specification, hopefully without using any GNU or BSD
extensions. If I did, please let me know.
Tip to all Linux users: Test your Makefiles with pmake(1) instead of
make(1) (= GNU make) and refer to the newest POSIX 2016 make
specification[0].
[0]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/make.html
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I didn't like the current Makefiles. They were too crufted and not
elegant. Additionally, given I'm planning to put some utility functions
into a util.{c|h}-prerequisite, I wrote this new Makefile with PREREQs
in mind.
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- fix: rebuild on source change.
- allow to override dependency flag per tool (the ones that have deps).
- rebuild on config.mk or headers change.
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- jpg2ff requires libjpeg
- ff2png, png2ff requires libpng (and libz)
- ff2ppm has no dependencies
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There have been quite considerable changes since version 1.
The conversion tools have had a considerable performance boost of
around 75% by using a row-buffer instead of reading each R-G-B-A-chunk
individually.
Also, 2ff(1) somehow called "xconvert" instead of "convert", rendering
it useless for anything other than png's and jpg's.
There was a small excursion to color spaces and ICC color profile
handling, but this has been dismissed (it was a difficult decision).
Thanks for all the feedback!
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Talking with even more people and weighing the benefits, I've made the
decision to remove color spaces from farbfeld again (as it currently
is handled in version 1) and recommend sRGB, not force it.
Thing is the following: We are not ready yet for this step. Neither the
people working with the images nor the hardware to display extended
colors. Using greater colorspaces also removes the "hackability" of
farbfeld.
As it was previously possible to easily create gradients in plain C,
you have to keep multiple things in mind with linear ProPhoto RGB.
The first thing is that not all colors are "real", and there are
imaginary colors. This doesn't happen with sRGB because all the colors
it describes are "real".
The second thing is the linear gamma curve, which makes the gradients
look perceptually inconsistent.
In the interest of creating a good and simple interchange format, we
can't only weigh in points of professionals. This little excursion has
shown that aiming for the 99% is still the way to go.
And as often as you could repeat that sRGB will meet its fate in the
future when screens become better, it is surprising how badly the
industry has caught up to it.
I also must honestly say that we can't solve the color space issue
using RGB and should look at other formats to explore (CIELUV, CIELAB),
which I will probably give a talk about at slcon3.
Before releasing version 2, my aim is to make the I/O a bit more
effective (as far as possible) so it's even easier to use.
I know people will be pissed off, but fuck it, I'm the maintainer!
Live with it.
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I've literally been thinking about this for quite a while now. The
initial motivation behind defaulting to sRGB was the idea that most data
on the web was in sRGB anyway.
However, my assumption was weakened in the sense that the development
is clearly moving towards images with supplied ICC profiles and software
slowly catching up to handle this. My tests have shown that more and
more people even do that on the web, even though it's been a "tradition"
that Photoshop users "Save for Web" and convert the gamut lossy into
sRGB to bring a consistent color-"experience" even to those clients not
supporting ICC profiles and which always assume sRGB.
What made this decision so difficult is that converting to "ProPhoto
RGB" requires some advanced knowledge on this topic, however, I came to
the conclusion to implement it given the *2ff- and ff2*-tools handle it
silently and well in the background, and given the little cms library is
actually quite okay to use.
When converting from ff to png, a proper "Pro Photo RGB" ICC V4-profile is
automatically included in the exported png by ff2png. V4 is not as
widespread as V2, but in the worst case (no V4 support somewhere) the
colors will just be a little off.
As an added bonus, any input files for png2ff which include ICC profiles
are also correctly handled and the color space conversions are executed
as expected.
Accordingly, the FORMAT-specification has been changed. While at it,
I added the note on alpha-multiplication. Now the format is very exact
and shouldn't leave any ambiguities.
jpeg supports ICC profiles as well, but I hadn't had the chance to look
into it (not as trivial as PNG probably, help appreciated :)), so I'm
always assuming sRGB here.
Rationale
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It is not obvious why one would go through the lenghts of supporting
this big-gamut colorspace and not just stick with sRGB. In 99% of the
cases, there's no reason to do that, but with even more extreme
developments in the OLED-sector and other advances display hardware is
slowly getting more powerful than sRGB, asking for color information
which is suitable for the task and actually uses the full potential.
The decision in this regard was not difficult in farbfeld because we
always use 16-Bit anyway and won't have to fear posterization in a big-
gamut color-space.
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And add a makerule to create a tarball via make dist.
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Real men use /man and don't /share/man
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I forgot that we can't just cd. It has to be a &&-statement.
Also, uncomplicate the output.
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-Wno-clobbered is not supported on OpenBSD. Let's remove it and Wextra
with all its stupid warnings.
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Thanks z3bra for porting this!
Also change 2ff to use case instead of if-blocks.
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This should also allow one to build the tools on both BSD and Linux
probably without modifying config.mk at all.
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- Rename the format
- Change the format specification
- Drop old tools waiting to be fixed on a later date, just keep
fixed png for now
- Simplify other stuff
This is a direct consequence of my slcon2-talk on this topic.
At first I planned to have 64 bits per channel, but this is
overkill.
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These tools are "one-shot", nobody cares about memory leaks while
the program is running.
Bring back -Os, no more false positives because there's no interaction
between gotos and setjmp/longjmp.
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-Os generates lots of false positives and it is not worth it much
for such a small set of tools.
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