Add support for the new image format - WebP

[sky]

I wonder if it is possible to add support for the WebP image format?

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/

[Laurent]

If you write it and submit it to the author of the stb_image library (which is used by SFML), yes

[sky]

Is stb_image library still developed? If so, whether they intend to support WebP soon? I doubt that I'll write that patch 

[Laurent]

Is stb_image library still developed?

I don't think so. Nothing will be done if they don't receive an external contribution.

[sky]

Is it possible that SFML will use another (better) image library in near future? For example gdal (although I'm not sure if it's good for SFML) or any other which support more image formats.

[Nexus]

stb_image seems to work fine, why replace it? The alternative would be to add another library (standing to reason is libwebp itself).

[sky]

So generally it is possible that in the near future SFML will support WebP (for example through libwebp). If it is possible when will that be?

[Nexus]

So generally it is possible that in the near future SFML will support WebP

I didn't say that (and I'm not the one to decide that anyway).

But how I see it: Especially for the near future, there are more important points to be achieved in SFML (just look at the GitHub issues), porting to mobile systems is an important milestone for example. On the other hand, WebP is still a rarely used format, so its support will be of little advantage for the average SFML user. Keep in mind that it requires an additional library dependency.

[FRex]

And nothing is preventing you from loading the image yourself and the uploading it to sftexture or sfimage.