On 31/05/2015 2:38 p.m., Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 02:16:02 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
As I've already said, out of the box experience should not rely on 3rd
party.
Rely on, no. But package? Sure. I'd be ok with built-in etc.c.sdl
bindings and such.
Perhaps dub obsoletes this idea, but if someone is willing to use a C
xml lib or sdl or whatever, sufficiently popular (defined simply by
"someone took the time to write the bindings and open the PR") libs
having bindings in there would be nice in a C-batteries included sense.
The way I view it is (lets use image as example).
Phobos would include an abstraction, a set of implementations and
creation hooks.
The creation hooks would allow converting to and importing certain formats.
Basically global AA full of e.g. delegates to do so.
Now a dub library could implement the abstractions, register there hooks
and wala.
You can now read a png image, jpeg or what ever and not really care
about the implementation and it just works. But if you need to you could
convert it to an SDL image and use it with SDL.
So now a very low entry point for new implementations and usages but
also a high gain in interoperability between implementations.
