[tgtl-devel] Hello and more

[Markus H. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi there,

as you have noticed I'm through with my patches in the bug fixing 
branch. There is one "bug" left I would like to discuss first:

Bug:
Loading a texture from a file fails when the file cannot be opened for 
writing (read only file system!). While it would be easy to just change 
the io mode when opening the file my solution would be to just remove 
the whole writing and seeking stuff and just work with boost source like 
devices. I didn't see writing being used anywhere and I think I removed 
seeking from all the filters. Do you see any problems with that?


This leads me to another point. The whole device concept with 
boost::iostreams seems a little bit over engineered to me. While I think 
boost is a great thing and I advice it's usage in all bigger C++ 
projects I think for GTL the cost is bigger than it's value. I think it 
would be much easier for users of GTL not being forced to install 
additional dependencies to use it. The device interface could be 
implemented just as easy without boost::iostreams. The fixed size data 
types could be easyly moved to custom typedefs too.

So for the next major release I think it would be a good idea to kick 
out boost and simplify the device concept. Do you agree?

Have a nice weekend!

Markus