[Geotiff] Add support for TIFFOpenStream

[Frank Warmerdam]

Fred Rothganger wrote:
> Dear GeoTIFF Folks,
> 
>    I would like to use the C++ stream code in libtiff (tiffio.hxx, 
> tif_stream.cxx) for file i/o.  libxtiffio supports every method of 
> opening a TIF other than this.  At least two solutions come to mind:
> 
>    1) One of the developers comes up with a nice way to add the 
> TIFFStreamOpen() functions.

Fred,

The stream support in libtiff has been a nightmare, and not something
I want to introduce into libgeotiff.

>    2) Make _XTIFFInitialize() public.  Since this is the only thing 
> special about the XTIFFOpen() functions, it is just as simple to allow 
> the client code to call it, and then use whatever TIFFOpen it wishes.

Feel free to submit a bug report with the patch to make this public and
I will incorporate it.

Best regards,

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