Re: [Openexr-devel] Long Channel Names

[Florian Kainz]

What are typical examples of channel names longer than 32 
characters?
 
Here at ILM, channel names are all rather short (for example, 
"R", "Z", or "N.001.x").  As far as I know, in the three years 
or so, since we started using OpenEXR, nobody here has ever 
complained about the limited length of channel names.  To me, 
the assertion that long channel names are common, is rather 
surprising.

Allowing longer channel names is, of course, trivial, but this 
effectively changes the OpenEXR file format.  Existing software 
would have to be recompiled in order to be able to read files 
with long channel names.