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What should be in image loading?

  • The Image Loading solution should support turning what is loaded to raw ubyte[] data

Open questions (no vote occured yet)

  • A 2-layer architecture for image loading (format decoders + generic interface)

  • Error codes or exceptions?

  • stance on -betterC?

  • whether there can be an additional IAllocator in Image loaders for temporary buffers, used for decoding

  • Which formats should be supported for loading?

  • Which formats should be supported for encoding?

  • how much Image loader are supposed to convert from one Color format to another Pros:

    • Less allocations Cons:
    • Extra conversions making things less clean

  • Is video to be supported?

  • Should animated format such as GIF be supported?

  • Should progressive images such as GIF be supported?

  • Progressive images (such as progressive JPEG) should be supported with an incomplete input?

  • What happens when loading something with another colorspace as sRGB? should it auto-convert?

  • Whether Image loaders should have short-paths for getting image meta-data such as dimensions

  • What meta-data is accessible to the visible API?