Re: [MACTCL] SPI changes for Leopard

[Philip A. <ph...@vc...>]

On 2006-06-23, at 09:51:25, Kevin Walzer wrote:

>>> From: Eric Schlegel <er...@ap...>

>>> Here's a note about Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X:

>>> Some of you might be using some of the SPI exported by CoreGraphics
>>> that begins with "CPS". If you are, we're planning to yank that
>>> entire SPI in Leopard and replace it with a different SPI, so this
>>> would be a good time to file Radar bugs describing how you're using
>>> it, so we have a chance to add corresponding API that you could use.
>>> Or if you've already filed feature requests that haven't been
>>> implemented yet, let me know the bug numbers.

> Any idea if this includes sips (Scriptable Image Processing System,  
> the
> public scripting interface to CoreGraphics for image maniuplation)?  
> I'm
> working on a Tk project that makes extensive use of sips, which will
> save me the trouble of trying to ship ImageMagick as a universal  
> binary.
> If these changes break sips, I'm a bit concerned.

SPI means "System Programming Interface" in this context (= hard to  
get cousin of API).
I expect sips will be updated and enhanced for Leopard since it's a  
very popular tool.


Philip Aker
ph...@vc...