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- From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: Re: SDSC Image Tools V2.1 Release
- Keywords: image file format, graphics, pixel utilities, image processing
- Message-ID: <102077@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 04:39:08 GMT
- References: <1gj4daINN6rd@network.ucsd.edu>
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- In article <1gj4daINN6rd@network.ucsd.edu> nadeau@sdsc.edu writes:
- >The SDSC Image Tools are released in binary form [...]
- >
- > Tool source code is included. Library source is not provided except
- > for sample source [...]
-
- If you'd like your tools to be widely used, debugged, ported, and
- enhanced, then it would probably be a good idea to provide the full source
- code...like Khoros...or pbm...or xv...or morph...or popi...and the
- rest of the imaging/graphics software of similar functionality which
- has been released to the Usenet community. Binary distributions are
- not nearly as useful.
-
- History (i.e. the history of various software tools in relation to
- Usenet/Internet over the past decade that network releases have been
- utilized) has shown that tools released with complete source code tend
- to do much better in the long run than their source-lacking counterparts.
-
- ---Rsk
-