libsail mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• sail-imaging

Projektgeschichte

The SAIL FAQ says SAIL is a rebranded ksquirrel-libs rewritten in C, improved, and enhanced with high-level APIs, and dates the SAIL/ksquirrel-libs lineage to 2003. The GitHub repository was created in March 2020 and the release tags show pre-release development through the 0.9.0 series before 1.0.0 tags in June 2026.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README positions SAIL for image viewers, game developers, and applications that need a clean API for many image formats. It also documents installation through PyPI, Homebrew, Conan, and vcpkg, which is the main source-backed evidence for cross-platform packaging adoption.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users link libsail from C or C++, use the Python binding, or invoke the sail command-line utility for conversion, resizing, frame extraction, and codec-tuning operations. The library loads codecs on demand and exposes multiple API levels for simple and advanced image handling.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

SAIL is interesting to packagers because it tries to sit between tiny single-header image loaders and large desktop imaging stacks: codec plugins, C11 portability, Python bindings, and package recipes all meet in one relatively young image-library package.

Zeitleiste

• 2003: The project's FAQ dates the SAIL/ksquirrel-libs lineage to this year.
• 2020: The GitHub repository was created in March and the v0.9.0-pre1 tag was made in June.
• 2023: The v0.9.0 tag was made in November.
• 2026: The v1.0.0 tag was published in June.

Related projects

• Related projects include ksquirrel-libs, KSquirrel, FreeImage, DevIL, SDL_image, stb_image, Boost.GIL, gdk-pixbuf, imlib2, CImg, Conan, vcpkg, and sailpy.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/HappySeaFox/sail/releases?per_page=100
• https://github.com/HappySeaFox/sail
• https://github.com/HappySeaFox/sail/blob/master/FAQ.md
• https://github.com/HappySeaFox/sail/releases