[GSOC] more ideas

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On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:45:35 +0200, Bruno Medeiros  
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:

> On 25/03/2011 08:45, Don wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> I was going to suggest *exactly* the same thing. Just loading the file
>> into raw bytes, and saving the raw bytes into a file. And even just PNG,
>> BMP, JPEG would be a huge step forward. Optionally GIF as well, now that
>> the patents have expired.
>>
>
> Like Jacob mentioned, Derelict has interfaces for DevIL, and also  
> SDL_Image if I recall correctly. Why isn't that good enough? I don't  
> know about DevIL, but I've used SDL_Image before, and I think the API  
> was perfectly fine. I mean, it was quite small, so there is not much  
> that needs to be adapted to make it more D-like.

As far as i know DevIL isn't thread-safe.
Another issue with these libraries i think is the license.