Can the dependency on Colors be dropped?

[juliohm]

As discussed in #42 , many people are only interested in the filtering operations and mapwindow functionality that the package provides. Do you think it is a good idea to split out the Color dependency, or maybe split out the mapwindow and filtering operations on arrays? It would be nice to have all those packages with similar functionality merged into a "best of all worlds" solution for filtering arrays.

[timholy]

The plan is to move most of the package to JuliaArrays and call it something else. Keep any colors-specific code here under ImageFiltering. I suspect this package will become laughably small, but folks seem to want that.

But this is very much not a priority for me right now with 1.0 freeze underway.

[juliohm]

I think renaming the package to something more "array-ish" in general and placing it in JuliaArrays is a good plan. The colors could live in a separate package in the Images.jl stack. 👍

[juliohm]

Also, given the availability of package extensions, the color dependencies could come as optional dependencies whenever someone loads the Colors.jl package explicitly in a session.

[timholy]

In the meantime Stencils.jl may offer some things missing from this package, but we'll be looking into finally making these changes in the next half-year or so...