Re: Imlib support...

> Well, the neat thing about Imlib2 is it is extensible... I.e. it has a > plugin style architecture, and since it's also being driven by > Enlightenment and sorta therefore by Gnome, it really is shaping up very > nicely. Doing home grown stuff is nice, but unless you have some really I've exchanged a few thoughts with Matt McClanahan, the author of the php_imlib module, about his work and Imlib2 in general. To me, the problem is the unix-centric nature of Imlib2 -- after all, it does require the X libraries among other things. The imaging backend PHP needs is really, really simple. We're probably talking about a smaller code base than the current GD distribution, and that's pretty small. We need to be able to work with 32-bit ARGB images and do basic cropping, scaling and blending operations; add FreeType 2 support and file-format plugins as garnish and you're pretty much done. Of course it's not as simple as that. But it's not that complicated either, especially since the world is full of the needed routines for manipulating raw 32bit images. Marko -- markonen@php.net