imageio progress

[Stéfan van der Walt]

Hi Almar

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Almar Klein <almar.klein at gmail.com> wrote:
> The project is called imageio and it is now a plugin-based library with a
> relatively small core. The freeimage plugin that started it all currently
> provides most file formats. Its now at a stage where I think the core is
> pretty much finished, and focus can shift towards different plugins for
> various scientific formats. But I am not going to do that alone :)

Is there a way to add plugins by simply "dumping" plugin files into
place?  This was part of the thinking when we designed the skimage.io
plugin infrastructure (so it would be easy for, e.g., Debian to add
new formats by simply unpacking into the right location).

I am not entirely happy with the complexity of the io module in
skimage, and would love to hear ideas about how it can be simplified,
perhaps integrating with imageio.

Stéfan