Re: Any kind of mimetex extension planned around?

Yannick, If you want a simple wrapper around an existing library, and you want that inside PECL, that library can't be GPL. LGPL is ok though. As for the rest, if we can wrap around an existing library, it can be pretty straightforward. Olivier On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Yannick Warnier <ywarnier@beeznest.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking for a mimetex/mathtex (latex interpreter, converts latex > syntax into GIF images) extension on pecl.php.net but apparently there's > nothing around for that purpose, so I just wanted to know if anybody > would possibly be working on something like that, and if anybody would > be interested. Basically, a good subset of mathematical expressions can > be dealt with by the MathML W3C standard (and that would be enough for > me) but it implies installing a plugin for all Internet Explorer > versions as they do not support SVG generation, and that is not > acceptable for my user base. > > The mimetex/mathtex software [1] is licensed under GNU/GPLv2 but the > current inconvenient is it is only running as a CGI in a web > environment, which makes it slightly inconvenient for me to provide to > "download, unzip, run" users of my application (also in GPLv2). > > As my latest experience with integrating a library to PECL was not that > good (in the end Sara took over completely for the integration of > libssh), I would be interested in seeing if there is someone I can just > provide some help with or if I will have to try doing it sometime soon. > > I'd also like to know if there is some kind of interest for that in > PECL. > > Regards, > > Yannick > > [1] http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html