Re: Let's fork GD!
| From: | Dave Mertens | Date: | Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:09:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Let's fork GD! | ||
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On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:46:56PM +0200, Daniel Lorch wrote:
> >> why not replace GD by imagemagick which is better anyway?
>
> > Have you looked under the skirts of ImageMagick? It is one of the
> > poorest-written libraries I have seen.
>
> Have you ever tried to do something productive with GD? It is one of
> the poorest tools I have ever seen.
>
> Seriously: imagemagick can do *ALOT* more than GD.
If you think that imagemagick is great, so don't you write an extention for it yourself.
Other developers can deside on buildtime which image library they use.
But to be onest with you, i don't have any problems with PHP/GD. Only building GD with PHP is
sometimes a nightmare, but therefor we have systems management ;-)
Dave Mertens