RE: [PHP-DEV] Status of GD

>Please post a separate clipping patch (php wrapper), from what >I saw in the >originall patch, it seemed ok. We certainly can and should add that >functionality PHP5. It's your baby. :) John -~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~- John Coggeshall john at coggeshall dot org http://www.coggeshall.org/ -~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~- >-----Original Message----- >From: Ilia A. [mailto:ilia@prohost.org] >Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:59 PM >To: John Coggeshall; internals@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Status of GD > > >On April 7, 2003 09:46 am, John Coggeshall wrote: >> Alright. Just for the sake of completeness, would you be against me >> creating a imagecopyrotated() function that basically just uses >> imagecopy() and PHP's imagerotate()? I think if we are going to have >> our own bundled GD lib that claims to be 2.0 compatiable it should >> have all that functionality. > >Our code for the moment is 'mostly' compatible, if I have >given you or anyone >else the impression that it is 100% compatible let me assure >you that is NOT >the case. There are future plans that may change even that, >but until they >are finalized I would rather not saying anything about them. > >As a rule I recommend that people use the bunbled GD as it has >a number of >features not found in bunbled GD as well as numerous fixes not >present in the >'official' GD. Our native rotate function was avaliable since >4.3.0 and that >is what people should be using. Having PHP5 comeout and >suddenly have 2 >different rotate functions would only cause user confusion (IMHO). > >> I'll separate my patch (which included imagecopyrotated) and submit >> that after I confirm it works, and I hear back from you on my >> proposal. > >Please post a separate clipping patch (php wrapper), from what >I saw in the >originall patch, it seemed ok. We certainly can and should add that >functionality PHP5. > >Ilia >