libsail を Homebrew でインストール

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プロジェクトの歴史

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.

採用の歴史

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.

使われ方

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.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

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.

タイムライン

• 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.

ソース

• 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