DIP80: phobos additions

[Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 04:34:56 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 04:22:56 UTC, Mike wrote:
>> On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 04:21:45 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally I would just be happy with a d wrapper for 
>>> something like freeimage being included.
>>
>> That's what Deimos is for 
>> (https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/FreeImage).
>
> Yeah. After the problems with linking in curl, I think that we 
> more or less decided that including stuff in Phobos which has 
> to link against 3rd party libraries isn't a great idea. Maybe 
> we'll end up doing it again, but in general, it just makes more 
> sense for those to be done as 3rd party libraries and put in 
> code.dlang.org.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I think that is probably pretty sad if that is actually the 
current stance. There are so many great libraries that Phobos 
could benefit from and is not because of a packaging issue.