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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Stand alone GD status?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
<chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I tried to post this note via the web interace, but I don't think it made
> it, so here it is again. I finally figured out how to subscribe to the list
> properly.
>
> (side NOTE: how to subscribe to the lists is very poorly documented --
> there is nice whole page about all the php lists, but no links or docs
> about how to subscribe. Elsewhere, I found how to subscribe to php-general,
> and extrapolated from that -- however, it took a bunch of failed attempts,
> and much frustration, before I figured out that list list is called
> "internals" rather than "php.internals" or "php-internals", or ???. But I
> guess that weeds out the less-persistent!)
>
> Sorry if it's a repeat.
>
> I'm interesting in the status of the GD lib as a stand-alone library. I'd
> like to use it on it's own, and perhaps write some new python bindings for
> it.
>
> But as we all know the state of libGD's web presence is confusing (though
> recently improved). I have found it hard to:
>
> 1) know which source code I should use

With PHP, for any version prior to 5.5, build using "--with-gd", that
will use the builtin version. As of 5.5, we have synced both versions
so from a features and fixes point of view, they are on the same line.

> 2) find the docs

I have to put it back, but it is in most headers too.

> 3) figure out where to ask questions, perhaps post patches, etc. (why I'm
> posting to this list)

you can fork and do pull requests on our git repo at bitbuckets. The
issues tracker is the place to post report bugs or features requests.

> So;
>
> a) is there a mailing list or something that I missed?

Yes, via the lists.php.net, ie. see http://news.php.net/php.gd.devel

> b) is there interest (probably from Pierre or Tom) to continue to maintain
> it, clean up its web presence, etc.? (note -- there really isn'ta ll that
> much to do to improve the situation a lot -- simply putting all the code,
> docs, and a small info page all in one place, and having a mailing list)

It is maintained, see http://www.libgd.org and the link to the repository.


> I like GD, as it is simple, fast, and does what I need it to do.

Same here :) While I still need a couple of new things, but they will
be added in gd 2.2.

> I'd rather
> not get into the mess of Cairo, or AGG, or skia (though skia does look
> pretty promising...). But I do need to know that there's some support
> before committing much effort to it.

There is :) We also have a IRC channel on freenode, #libgd.

Thanks for your interest!
--
Pierre

@pierrejoye |  http://www.libgd.org