DIP80: phobos additions

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 8 June 2015 at 13:54, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 8/06/2015 3:48 p.m., Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> On 8 June 2015 at 13:08, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/06/2015 2:50 p.m., Tofu Ninja wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 18:27:16 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Phobos is awesome, the libs of go, python and rust only have better
>>>>> marketing.
>>>>> As discussed on dconf, phobos needs to become big and blow the rest
>>>>> out of the sky.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP80
>>>>>
>>>>> lets get OT, please discuss
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Would love some kind of color implementation in Phobos, simple linear
>>>> algebra(vectors, matrices), image manipulation.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2845 Heyyyy Manu,
>>> hows
>>> it going?
>>
>>
>> I've kinda just been working on it on the side for my own use.
>> I wasn't happy with the layout, and restructured it a lot.
>> If there's an active demand for it, I'll give it top priority...?
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>
> Like I said its a blocker for an image library. There's no point
> implementing an image library with a half baked color definition meant for
> phobos.

Yeah, that's fine. Is there an initiative for a phobos image library?
I have said before that I'm dubious about it's worth; the trouble with
an image library is that it will be almost impossible to decide on
API, whereas a colour is fairly unambiguous in terms of design merits.


> The long term issue is that we cannot really move forward with anything
> related to GUI or game development into phobos without it.
> So preferably we can get it into phobos by the end of the year :)

Yeah, I agree it's a sore missing point, which is why I started
working on it ;) ... I'll make it high priority.
I recently finished up various work on premake5, so I can work on this now.