Re: [UFRaw-Devel] Adding ExifTool support to UFRaw

[Greg T. <gd...@ir...>]

Udi Fuchs <udi...@gm...> writes:

> I'm not too keen to incorporate ExifTool into UFRaw because it is
> written in Perl. But on the other hand it is the only tools that can
> read Exif data from raw files, and it is extremely good at it.

I concur.  In particular there's a lot of stuff in makernotes.

But so far, at least with Nikon raw files, I haven't been cranky about
ufraw's exif support.

> Most importantly is that using ExifTool should be optional. On win32
> machines, for example, I don't think we should enable it, unless
> someone is willing to test how Perl should be installed for everything
> to work properly on this system.
 
Sure.  It seems that having some exif support from the easiest C
library should be the default, so that raw->jpg preserves the exif
information.

> I think that during the build process, one should decide if he wants
> to use ExifTool libexif or no Exif support at all (and maybe exiv2 in
> the future).

Sure.  But, it can be optional be used by default if found with
autoconf.

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        Greg Troxel <gd...@ir...>