Re: Let's fork GD!
| From: | Jim Winstead | Date: | Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:27:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Let's fork GD! | ||
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Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.ca> wrote:
> I propose that we roll the GD library into PHP, apply the various
> outstanding patches and default to building from the bundled library much
> like we do with MySQL. I think GD is a popular enough extension for PHP
> that it would be extremely cool to have decent truecolor GD2 support
> available for everyone. And we could go in and fix a couple of really
> annoying aspects as well as give the various graphics nuts a bit of a
> playground to come up with cool stuff.
+1. big +1.
what would be nice is to also clean up some parts of the api.
specifically, all the duplication that came about to load different
image and font formats. it would be really nice to hide all of those
behind a simplified interface that either sniffed out the file type
automatically, or allowed it to be specified as a parameter.
jim