On 31/05/2015 6:56 p.m., lobo wrote:
On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 05:17:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 04:46:51 UTC, lobo wrote:
Again, I wonder why would you reimplement what you get from libpng?
I've actually had people ask me what magic I did with my png.d because
it often generates smaller files than libpng. It is easier to use an
leaving out unnecessary bits made it faster and more efficient! (for
our use cases, the full lib is surely useful for other cases)
The thing with those libraries is they do everything, which makes them
bigger and more complex. There's a place for that, sure, but it isn't
necessarily better.
As for libcurl, well if a pure D curl impl is written for Phobos it
will be 100s to 1000s of additional LOC that require testing and
maintaining.
Fun fact: curl is actually pretty buggy... and a pain to use too. I
like it and use it for a lot of things, but I also replaced it (and
again, like with the png, a lot of the things it does aren't necessary
for me anyway)
I know cURL has numerous bugs, I work with them everyday :)
But so do many many others and that's partly my point; the majority of
bugs are exposed pretty quickly with that many users.
I'm also not convinced that a D PNG or cURL (or whatever)
implementation, used en masse, wouldn't grow to include all those
'missing' features and end up just as bloated. But now without lots and
lots of users to help report all those bugs.
Anyway, it's a moot point given that I probably won't ever have the time
to really contribute more than bug reports for D ;-)
I just finished your book by the way and thought it was a terrific read.
Nice work!
bye,
lobo
I would recommend you reading png's 1.2 spec[0].
It wouldn't be hard to add the "missing" features as free-functions if
done right.
[0] http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Structure.html
