I'd be interested in tackling this, but a number of alternatives were proposed, including my io.png.read() and Johannes's plugin registry thingy, with no clear decision on which way to go...

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Stéfan van der Walt stefan@sun.ac.zawrote:

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Juan Nunez-Iglesias jni.soma@gmail.com wrote:

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I'd argue yes. ;) But I'm not sure any hard conclusions were reached as

to

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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

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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

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