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> WARNING: FLIF is a work in progress. The format is not finalized yet. Any small or large change in the algorithm will most likely mean that FLIF files encoded with an older version will no longer be correctly decoded by a newer version. Keep this in mind.

This seems so... avoidable. Maybe the FLIF format could include a version number declaration?



This makes sense for versions after the format gets finalized.

If they do it for pre-finalization versions, then they (and other implementations) will have to keep supporting them, which probably doesn't make sense considering how small the corpus of images in this format likely is.


No, they can just reject prerelease versions without attempting to decode them, which is much more elegant (and safer).




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