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  <title>Vampyre Imaging Library Future</title>
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    <title>Vampyre Imaging Library Future</title>

    <par>
      In the long term I'm planning to redesign and rewrite major parts
      (practically create new library - no compatibility with current version)
      of library in
      future to make it more compact and easier to use and extend.
    </par>
    <par>
      Since I don't have that much free time these days I cannot say when
      new library will be ready.
      First working version of this new design will be 0.30 (Imaging 0.3x branch in SVN).
    </par>
    <par>
      Current 0.2x branch will still be updated from time to time
      by minor release (like 0.24.2) or even larger release with more
      new functionality (like 0.26.0).
    </par>
    
    <par>Here is a list of some of the features I want to include in future
      Imaging releases:</par>
    <bulletlist>
      <li>new library core</li>
      <li>native Pascal TIFF support</li>
      <li>register your own data formats</li>
      <li>native Pascal JPEG2000 support</li>
      <li>more texture related functions</li>
      <li>extend canvas class (more effects, drawing of various primitives)</li>
      <li>own file format?</li>
      <li>more supported platforms (big endian?)</li>
    </bulletlist>
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