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Current disagreements If you need ideas for proposals.

Image abstraction:

• error codes vs exceptions for various components
• stance on -betterC
• TBD: what is a Color, the "pixel" type of an Image
  • and whether it's a compile-time or runtime thing
• whether there should be several different Color format and type
  • and what they would be
• whether the Image abstraction have a runtime interface
• whether the Image abstraction is a range-like concept
• whether the Image abstraction is 2D or N-dimensional
• whether there can be an additional IAllocator in Image loaders for temporary buffers, used for decoding
• who owns the Image abstraction itself (GC, RC, scoped ownership)
• how animated Image would be represented

Image loaders:

• how much Image loader are supposed to convert from one Color format to another
• whether Image loaders should have short-paths for getting image dimensions
• whether/how Image loaders should have short-paths for progressive downsampled images
• a 2-layer architecture for image loading