RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!

Rasmus Lerdorf writes: > 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. If there will be no gif support in the bundled gd, then there has to be a mechanism for using external gd libs, much like the mysql mechanism. The option --with-gd uses the bundled libs, --with-gd=/path/to/gd uses external libs. Removing support for gif images completely would be brutal, and isn't a decision that PHP should be making on behalf of its users. IMHO that is. Frankly, I think gif support should be included and disabled by default. Let the users decide. For the most part, they are a fairly smart bunch. Otherwise they'd be using asp or cf or some damn thing. :) Best Regards Mike Robinson