This may be a dumb question from a newbie, but what version of RawTherapee does the RawPedia book refer to? This seems like a crucial bit of info, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
For example, the book says this:
The values the histogram and navigator show are either those of the
working profile, or of the gamma-corrected output profile. You can
choose which you prefer in “Preferences > Color Management” (prior
to RawTherapee-4.2 the option was in “Preferences > General”)
But in my version of RawTherapee (4.2.0) I did not find this option in either of the above locations.
Thanks - it is indeed on the Preferences > General page, sorry I overlooked it yesterday. I see that RawPedia is now corrected as to its location, that wsa quick!
i still think that somewhere in the front matter of the book, it should say what version the book pertains to. Particularly for the pdf book - if it changes, people might have several different versions. However, even for the online version this would be nice. I have RT 4.2.0, which is distributed for Ubuntu 14.04, but I don’t actually know whether that’s the latest devleopment version or not. It would be nice to at least alert readers to the fact that the very informative RawPedia book may not pertain exactly to the version of RawTherapee they are running (and in the case of older versions of RT perhaps give them a chance of getting the version of RawPedia pertinent to their particular version)
RawPedia will always best match the the latest development version. We don’t have the resources to maintain versions of it.
The book download page states quite clearly, “This is an automatically-generated book of the current state of the RawPedia wiki. It has been made available in this printable form to make offline reading possible and easy. The live version should always be considered more up-to-date than the downloaded form.”
I wasn’t meaning to imply that you should maintain an archive of versions or anything - I realize that RawPedia is of necessity something that is constantly changing. All I was suggesting was that the currently live version or RP should actually say what version of RT is the current development version, which is the one that the live version of RP is most applicable, so readers or RP have some reference point.
For example, I know which version of RT I have (4.2.0), but it took poking around on the rawtherapee.com to find that latest version mentioned there is 4.2.78 (but for all I know, the current development version is
later than this and only available as source code from somewhere else…). Many RT users (like me) will likely be running some older version of RT because of different distros etc., and it would make RP more useful if such users would have some idea as to how much they might expect RP to have diverged from their particular version of RT (and to see how out-of-date some PDF version of RP that they find on their hard-drives might be)
I’m wondering if there is a versioning ability for wikimedia that will let you tag sections according to the versions they are relevant for.
For instance, Blender did this quite nicely, allowing pages to be tagged to particular versions as needed. I’m thinking something along the lines of Read the Docs possibly, where versioning can take place as needed.
The bigger problem is lack of manpower and ownership of possibly doing something like this…
The contents of RawPedia are not fully valid for any one particular version. Things are added to RawTherapee and things are changed, and RawPedia hopefully gets updated in light of these changes and additions not long after they are made. Sometimes these changes are only in French, as is the case with Retinex and Wavelets, and things only get translated or written when we feel the code is stable enough to spend time documenting it. Sometimes, hopefully rarely, things don’t get documented or updated unless someone points out the deficiency. That is why it is safe to say that RawPedia will always best match the the latest code, and it offers no benefit to tag RawPedia in any way as the “accuracy spread” can be quite high.
A lot changed since the last “stable version”, that is why it’s taking so long to get the new one out. Hopefully once we get the new one out we will release updates more often.
