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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Deprecating GD functions imagettftext/bbox
From: ml@anderiasch.de (Florian Anderiasch)

On 24.07.2014 09:13, Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Lonny Kapelushnik <lonny@lonnylot.com> wrote:
>> Morning,
>>
>> I propose deprecating two GD functions: imagettftext and imagettfbbox.
>>
>> The reasons I would like to deprecate them are:
>> 1. Their functionality is a subset of imagefttext and imageftbbox
>> 2. The imagettf* functions have the same requirements as the imageft*
>> functions
>> 3. The imagettf* functions parameters are compatible with the imageft*
>> functions parameters

As I said on IRC, I think the least invasive action would be to make
them true aliases (so that the ones with less parameters act exactly as
the ones with more) and put that into the docs. This doesn't contradict
future removal.

Greetings,
Florian