2011.04.12 02:06 "[Tiff] Libtiff v4.0.0beta7 released", by Bob Friesenhahn

2011.04.13 13:09 "Re: [Tiff] Libtiff v4.0.0beta7 released", by Edward Lam

On 4/12/2011 10:30 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

  • TIFFFindFieldInfo() (and related functions in tif_dirinfo.c) is now deprecated in favour of TIFFFindField. Right now, it just silently returns 0.

If a function no longer has any use, we should simply delete it since this is the time to do so. To me "deprecate" means that the function continues to work, but that code should move away from it.

Even better, do I need to submit a patch? :)

In GraphicsMagick, the only define I am using which identifies a feature in libtiff 4.0 is TIFF_VERSION_BIG. The cases should be very rare that perfectly written code should care about which library version is being used.

Ah, I had looked at tiff.h but thought the defines where the same because the names looked similar. I now see that it's actually TIFF_BIGTIFF_VERSION vs TIFF_VERSION_BIG.

Thanks,

-Edward