DIP80: phobos additions

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/06/2015 4:05 p.m., Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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...?
>>
>>
>> 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.

I agree that it is. But we will need to move past this for the 
betterment of our ecosystem.
Without it we will suffer too much.

As it is, Devisualization.Image will have a new interface once 
std.image.color is pulled. So it'll be a contender for std.image.

>> 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.

Sounds good, I was getting worried that you had stopped altogether.