Re: [PHP4BETA] GD support

On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:35:13AM +0200, Alain Penders wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:39:50PM +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > Do we support all 2^345 different versions of gd now? People > > seem to have constantly problems with everything newer than > > 1.3. This problem should be attacked before b3 goes live. > > I was thinking about this as well, as I need GD for my website, > but the problem doesn't seem to be straight forward to me. > GD only supports GIFs up to version 1.5. All newer versions > only support PNG. So someone who needs GIFs would be using > an old version of it, while someone who is satisfied with PNG > would be using the newer version. > > IMHO, PHP will have to support both the old and new libraries. > > Personally, I needed GIF yet also wanted the new features of > GD 1.7, so I've simply hacked the GIF support back into the > latest version of GD. While slightly 'illegal', I'm sure others would appreciate these patches. :) -- Jeffrey H. Johnson, jeff@websitefactory.net The Web Site Factory, http://www.websitefactory.net