[Sanddancer]

GEGL and Gimp are pretty much joined at the hip. While they're in name separate projects, they're very much developed for one another.

[jononor]

GEGL is developed for GIMP, and other projects. http://www.jonnor.com/2014/04/imgflo-0-1-an-image-processing... http://www.jonnor.com/2014/11/imgflo-0-2-the-grid-launched/ Disclosure: I'm a GEGL dev and the imgflo maintainer.

The 'other projects' part is one of the reasons why the proposed solution 'just strip all colorspace info, assume it is the same throughout entire processing pipeline' is not acceptable for GEGL, even if that might somewhat close to the typical usecase for GIMP.