Re: Package Proposal: Image_JPEG

I have considered that alternative, and I don't believe it's a good idea right now. There is a lot of "overhead" in the way I read the files, just because I need to write the data back. And because I need to parse more data than just the IPTC block. And my data structures are somehow different than Image_IPTC / exif_read_data()... Because of the read/write requirements, and because the iptcdecode() methods were hard to use and unsuported, and because exif_read_data was really a mess until recent versions. Also, incorporating the "native" methods to my class (or the opossite) would mean adding more clutter to the interface... When you create an object... is it for read-only or read/write? Do you want to use the native methods or the the php code? What version of the native methods are available? I'm not saying that it is impossible. I'm not saying that if it is done, it would not be a lot "cleaner" than what we have now. What I'm saying is that it would add complexity. It would make all modules harder to maintain. And it would take a lot of work for not much gain compared to what we have right now.