[Openexr-devel] Rate of development for OpenEXR and CTL?

[Jonathan Day]

Hi,

The OpenEXR website seems to be a little stagnant (the links to CTL on 
www.oscars.com are broken - if you want it, it's on Sourceforge) and there's no 
evidence of any new releases or bugfix releases since October 2007.

Call it a hunch, but given the modifications to GCC and other compilers over 
the past 3 years, I'm certain that even if the code had been perfect in 2007, 
there will be something that that is either no longer really correct (a legacy 
way of doing things) and perhaps does something unexpected, or breaks entirely.

(The concept of "bit-rot" is actually valid, albeit described more in a comedic 
way than in the actual dynamics. Correct but unmaintained code will effectively 
accumulate errors, because language specs, standard function call semantics and 
compiler-specific nuances will always diverge from whatever you started off 
with.)

Is anyone maintaining OpenEXR and/or CTL on an unofficial site or maintaining a 
bugfix patch, or is there a planned official release on the table?

Jonathan Day