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Adobe Open Source

129 points| lelf | 8 years ago |adobe.github.io | reply

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[+] denisehilton|8 years ago|reply
It's nice to know that the biggest tech brands are slowly moving towards open source. That does reassure common men like us.
[+] ttoinou|8 years ago|reply
"2 years 8 months since last commit" :p
[+] tannhaeuser|8 years ago|reply
Adobe is sitting on tons of software and could open source a whole lot more, such as their embedded JS (ES3?) engine and maybe older FrameMaker sources and other print-era renderers they don't have a direct commercial interest in anymore.
[+] geff82|8 years ago|reply
How much a month does the subscription to the open source code cost? ;)
[+] 52-6F-62|8 years ago|reply
$30 USD a month, or $150 CAD, and you have to commit to a year at signup. Cancellation fee is 99% of the remaining term.

Kidding aside --- any plans for Adobe to open-source Coral UI? I work with projects that run right beside AEM but not within it, and it would be great to make that entire experience seamless.

[+] geokon|8 years ago|reply
Does anyone knows what's up with Boost GIL by Adobe? It's not hosted here, but it's on their website: https://stlab.adobe.com/gil/ (With no updates in 10 years :S)

Is it abandoned...? Is it "done"? (Or has everyone moved on to some other library?)

I really liked the template magic it did. It was so generic and flexible with image formats while being very performant. Really puts to shame the garbage that's in OpenCV

[+] exikyut|8 years ago|reply
From 5 minutes of googling it looks to me like it's been collectively quietly moved on from, but that it's not broken.

Put it this way: it's in Boost. Boost is an established standard. If a library in Boost suddenly stopped working because of language changes, that would produce some kind of response. In GIL's case, it looks like may be a reasonable number of quiet users of GIL, so any such "okay, we need to do something about this" might be met with a collective "wait, hold up, let's fix it."

Note I said might. I honestly have no idea.

What I did was search for "adobe gil" but date-restricted the search to after 2007: https://www.google.com/search?q=adobe+gil&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_m...

That gave me

http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/gil-What-is-the-status-of... - from 2010

https://code.google.com/archive/p/gil-contributions/source/d...:

- most recent commit 2013

- most recent downloadable file 2010

- one export to github, https://github.com/chyh1990/gil-contributions/commits/master, that hasn't made any changes (github commit list === google code commit list)

- result http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/gil/test/image_io.... says to look at http://opensource.adobe.com/gil, this redirects to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Home/. Jumping manually to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/wiki/Projects/ leads me to https://sourceforge.net/adobe/genimglib/home/Home/, which shows updates from 2007.

BUT.

I tried refining my google search to `adobe "gil"`, including the quotes. The first result?

https://github.com/boostorg/gil

And then...

https://github.com/boostorg/gil/commits/develop

shows commits from last month. Objectively speaking it's not, say, React. There were a bunch of commits in 2013-14.

The project only has 15 stars, 7 watches and 20 forks, but

- https://github.com/boostorg/gil/graphs/contributors shows a total code churn of 214,889 added lines, 99388 removed lines (data without context - could be due to version control shuffling) between about 15 committers (I didn't count them)

- https://github.com/boostorg/gil/pulse shows... not much, because I can only show 1 month max :(

- Of the 4 issues, none have been closed, but there is extensive discussion between maintainers on one of them (on what looks like a setup issue).

I don't know what to make of this repo, here's hoping if you poke it you'll get a nice result. :P

[+] Navarr|8 years ago|reply
I'm very surprised that adobe isn't using a custom hostname.

PaaS are transient, but URLs are "forever"

[+] kensign|8 years ago|reply
this makes it official.

:/

[+] mcappleton|8 years ago|reply
Brackets is pretty good and it's very fast for a hybrid. I don't use it much these days though except when I just want to use a different editor for a change.
[+] blahblah1234|8 years ago|reply
I didn't even know this was a thing. Sounds like a great idea. Although with adobe's track record like with coldfusion i don't know about this one
[+] sebazzz|8 years ago|reply
What is Adobe's track record with ColdFusion?
[+] bdcravens|8 years ago|reply
Likely Adobe won't ever open source ColdFusion with a perfectly viable version already available.

http://lucee.org