Re[3]: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:47:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re[3]: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD! | ||
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I have, and so have all sorts of other people. Look at packages like
jpgraph. GD does enough. It is a clean and simple library. The ImageMagick
library is full of buffer overruns and crash bugs. Try drawing a big
circle, for example. The thing writes all over memory it isn't supposed
to. If it ever matures, or preferably gets a complete rewrite, I would
consider it.
-Rasmus
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Daniel Lorch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> 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.
>
> -daniel
>
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