RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!
| From: | Tim Thorpe | Date: | Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:09:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD! | ||
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Was composing that same message when I received it.
+1
-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:05 AM
To: Georg Richter
Cc: Markus Fischer; Stig S. Bakken; php-dev@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!
> On Friday, 12. April 2002 06:53, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > Well, I don't actually see a license problem for non-LZW compressed
> > gifs. But I am still not sure supporting GIF is a productive thing
> > to do. The format needs to die. No sense helping it stay alive.
> >
> +1
> I think its not a good idea to support gif-format. We have a lot of
> alternative formats.
We could compromise and support reading of GIF files. That way you can
still use GIF image files from places, but you would write them back out
as pngs.
-Rasmus
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