Potentially a useful way to tame lifetimes: SharedBytes

[icefoxen]

SharedBytes is a type used in rusttype, documented here: https://docs.rs/rusttype/0.2.1/rusttype/enum.SharedBytes.html

This lets all of rusttype's structs, such as FontCollection and Glyph, use the same interface for owned and unowned backing stores. Instead of taking a &'a [u8] they just take Into<SharedBytes<'a>>.

Something like this might make it easier to avoid issues such as andelf/rust-sdl2_ttf#29 , andelf/rust-sdl2_ttf#29 , and anything that uses a RWops (#535 was not the panacea I was hoping it would be).

Just something that might be worth considering.

[Cobrand]

This might be interesting to implement, however I think more details are needed concerning how we would use it / what it would replace / ... Maybe something to think about if we ever get a 1.0.0 release ?

[icefoxen]

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/borrow/enum.Cow.html appears to implement something quite similar already...