Re: Any kind of mimetex extension planned around?

Le mercredi 02 avril 2008 à 09:59 -0400, Olivier Hill a écrit : > 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 Thanks, I've sent an e-mail to the author to see if he would consider licensing it as LGPL. Will get back if it's a yes. Yannick > 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 >