Initial feedback for std.experimental.image

ketmar via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 7 21:47:14 PDT 2015


On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 18:54:45 +1000, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:

>> std.zlib need to stop being crap. i.e. it should be thrown away and
>> completely rewritten. i did that several times, including pure D
>> inflate and compress/decompress that using byte streams. never used
>> std.zlib as is.
> 
> What's wrong with zlib? Surely it's possible to produce a d interface
> for zlib that's nice?
> Thing is, zlib is possibly the single most popular library in the world,
> and it gets way more testing, and improvements + security fixes from
> time to time. Why wouldn't you want to link to the real thing?

nothing wrong with *zlib*, it's *std.zlib* sux. but not `etc.c.zlib` 
interface, which i used in some of my stream codecs.
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