Stand alone GD status? View as Markdown

Le 17/05/2013 18:55, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal a écrit :

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

=> https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd

Remi.

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