FileProcessors's and the like....
So there is quite a bit of duplicated code and convoluted interfaces for manipulating files. especially images...
imagecache, image, watermark, imageexact, etc, etc are all relatively simple 'filters' or 'processors' for files. I've got different versions of imagecache with various gd filters, image2ascii conversion, mosaic affects, etc floating around, along with some tools for processing quicktime files and front-ends for ffmpeg I'd like to make available to the community, but coding a module for each one would be a real pain, and would make for a rather module heavy drupal...
imagecache is really a proof of concept work for generating images on the fly, but I had to throw the 'preset' and 'action' management interface into it so it could do its good work. I think there is a strong need to sort this kind of processing into its own little library. Actions.module or filter.module would be a good model for a UI I think.
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