Re: Package Proposal: Image_JPEG

On Wed, 07 May 2003 11:28:51 -0400 Sebastian Delmont <sdelmont@zonageek.com> wrote: > I think the package itself might be very useful to those who don't > have access to the latest PHP. So tying it to the exif extension might > not be the best choice. At least not in the near future. The goals is not to ty only on the extension (see the xml_rpc usage in PEAR). > And using the "native" extensions in my package is not that simple, > because I need to provide the ability of writting the data back, so I > need to get more information than what is needed for read-only access, Is it possible to think a little bit outside the scope of your package? i.e. as a way to get an unique IPTC package in PEAR? > and more information than what the native extensions provide. > > So in the end, we would have two almost independent implementations, > one using the native methods and one using php code. One allowing read > and write and one read only. It is just that those two implementations > would live in the same package. And that is not, at least not in my > eyes, justification enough to delay the current package and specially > not enough for the amount of work it would need. XML_RPC does exactly that, and sounds like a very good thing. But the point now, is to convince you to work with Patrick. > The way I see it is that there might be people for whom this library > would be very useful as is. I already have it, so time doesn't matter > to me... but someone might be looking for a way to write EXIF > information, and that person would be affected. That person can still grap the package from your respective site. pierre