[GSOC] more ideas

[Simon]

On 24/03/2011 21:35, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-03-24 22:16, Simon wrote:
>> On 24/03/2011 19:39, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:54:56 +0200, Trass3r <un at known.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't want to edit the ideas wiki page without getting another
>>>> opinion, so what about:
>>>
>>> Me too - how about an image library? Being able to load/save popular
>>> image formats from/to RGB pixel arrays would be a great start, with
>>> everything else a bonus.
>>>
>>> There's gd bindings here, but it's only a thin wrapper around the C
>>> interface: http://www.algonet.se/~afb/d/
>>>
>>> Lack of an image library keeps me going back to Delphi+PngImage for such
>>> tasks.
>>>
>>
>> I've got bindings for libjpeg and libpnd done.
>> Whipping up a few more bindings for other c image format libs wouldn't
>> be difficult. Just having a single source for basic IO of the more
>> popular formats would be good.
>>
>
> Derelict (http://dsource.org/projects/derelict/) contains bindings for
> DevIL (http://openil.sourceforge.net/).
>

Yes I know, but I don't like devil's interface.

It would be nicer to have a suite of simple 1to1 wrappers to the lower 
level libraries for greater flexibility.

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