On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Juan Nunez-Iglesias wrote:

I'd argue yes. ;) But I'm not sure any hard conclusions were reached as to what exactly needs to be done. I guess the first thing is fixing the TIFF input bug, before any more refactoring. But that might go away in a refactor anyway...

We need to a) refactor the I/O infrastructure which b) should allow plugins to describe their supported functionality. Another option would be to get rid of plugins, and to provide a directory of snippets that illustrate how to load various other file formats with skimage. Stéfan