Re: new extension: php-vips-ext

Hi John! On 05.11.2016 at 12:43, jcupitt@gmail.com wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We've made a PHP binding for the libvips image processing library. > > https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips > > libvips is interesting because it is fast and needs (relatively) > little memory. I made a tiny benchmark here: > > https://github.com/jcupitt/php-vips-bench > > On that test (and on this laptop), php-vips is four times faster than > imagick and needs 10x less memory. libvips is becoming widely used for > resizing image proxies and it's the library behind the most popular > node.js image resizing module. > > Our PHP binding comes in two parts. There's an extension here that > does the low-level link to the libvips library: > > https://github.com/jcupitt/php-vips-ext > > And a pure PHP thing here that tries to layer a nice API on top of that: > > https://github.com/jcupitt/php-vips > > I'd like to get the extension part added to PECL. Does this look like > a suitable project? Yes, that ext looks rather interesting. I suggest that you apply for a PECL account (<https://pecl.php.net/account-request.php>). -- Christoph M. Becker