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ImageVS

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🖼️🆚️💾️ The official source repository for ImageVS, a set of Version Control Systems for digital image formats.

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Current challenges

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• I need to find development time to work on this project
• I need a maintainer for this project
• Tools for testing are not available to me right now
• I have limited Perl experience

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Variants

Through the usage of variants, 10 image formats are supported by ImageVS, created in this order:

• PNGVS ( Docs)
• SVGVS ( Docs)
• GIFVS ( Docs)
• JPEGVS ( Docs)
• TIFVS ( Docs)
• BMPVS ( Docs)
• HEIFVS ( Docs)
• JP2VS ( Docs)
• NETPVS ( Docs)
• WEBPVS ( Docs)

More will be supported in the future.

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How it works

ImageVS provides support for embedding image files right into a Git repository as a binary file that can be edited, and has a revision history. A hex editor can be used to edit the files. Similar to Wikimedia commons, a revision history for each file is available.

VS = Version Supercontrol

No original draft for this project exists, as one was not written at the time of inception, other than this:

ImageVS
PNGVS
JPEGVS
TIFVS
BMPVS
HEIFVS
WEBPVS
NETPVS
GIFVS
JP2VS
SVGVS

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Languages used

Perl

Why write ImageVS in Perl

The project could have been done in C, but Perl doesn't get enough use, and is also suitable here. I felt like giving Perl a chance here. It is mostly done for software diversity reasons.

Pod

Pod is used for documentation instead of Markdown. The transition of core documentation to Pod will come in the future.

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Further documentation

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Further documentation is available in a separate repository (seanpm2001/ImageVS_Docs/)

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File info

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• File type: Markdown (*.md *.mkd *.mdown *.markdown)
• File version: 1 (2023, Monday, December 18th at 06:03 pm PST)
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File history

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Version 1 (2023, Monday, December 18th at 06:03 pm PST)

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• This release was made by @seanpm2001

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