DlangUI project update

[Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 09:30:40 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote:
> On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 07:35:13 UTC, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> ah, and another thing: freeimage sux for GNU/Linux. it looks 
>> completely
>> alien and no sane GUI software requires it. i didn't looked at 
>> the
>> code, but i hope that image loading is well abstracted in 
>> DlangUI? if
>> it is, i can try to write a loaders for png and jpg (jpg? in 
>> GUI? holy
>> heavens, why?!).
>>
>> it's better to check if the system has the corresponding 
>> libraries with
>> corresponding versions (imlib2 rocks, for example), but i 
>> suppose that
>> dub cannot into configure checks, am i right?
>
> Initially, I've used libpng for loading images.
> But it is compatible only with some particular version of 
> libpng.so
> API version is passed somwhere in calls, and doesn't work with 
> updated library.
> I've tried to find some replacement for it, and found FreeImage 
> (there was Derelict suport for it, and it was used in some D 
> projects).
> Probably, it makes sense to move to SDL_image. But it looks 
> like it requires SDL as dependency.
> Does it work ok on linux?
> Let me check imlib2 as well.

BTW, there is de_image package - "Image loading and exporting 
Devisualization".
It's native D implementation, and possible if PNG only is enough, 
it makes sense to use it.
Did some try de_image?