Initial feedback for std.experimental.image

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7 July 2015 at 12:33, ketmar via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:48:51 +0000, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>
>> Please destroy!
>
> have no real opinion, but for me everything is looking good. i don't
> really care about "ideal design", only about "usable design". and that
> seems usable.
>
>> Some thoughts of mine:
>> - std.zlib will need to support allocators
>
> 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?