> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Boutell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 31 August 2006 00:17 > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DEV] gd development as part of php.net > > Unfortunately there hasn't been any movement on this since I handed > it over to Pierre in April. > > Obviously, since I sat on PHP myself for a really long time, I am not > pointing the finger at Pierre here. I'm still the champion > gd-neglect-ster by a LONG shot. > > However, I'm wondering if anyone else is eager to help him make a > new release of gd happen as part of the PHP project. > > If necessary, I could go looking for a new maintainer again, though > that surely wouldn't be fun and I'd prefer almost anything else. (: > > * * * > > On a related note, I'm wondering why PHP doesn't seem to have any > official relationship with the ImageMagick project - Which offers > an unofficial PHP extension of its own. > > Though gd has been good to me over the years, I'm not going to sit > here and pretend gd has a modern graphics API. It doesn't. gd has a > very 1989 API, full of integer-oriented assumptions and > less-than-smooth implementations of graphics primitives, written > by a guy with no formal background in graphics algorithms (me). > And that's always going to be visible in the quality of its output, > short of a total core rewrite and API redesign. > > The good thing about gd was always the simple API - but a simple > API at the C level doesn't necessarily help anymore when the > end user isn't coding in C anyway. And ImageMagick has a > floating-point, vector-oriented API that can do a whole lot more. > With a coder-friendly "MagickWand" API that gives it simplicity > approaching gd, especially when used from languages like PHP. > > Also, the ImageMagick license appears to be GPL-compatible > and making-money-compatible: > > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php > > So, at the expense of my own site traffic perhaps, why the outdated > gd API and not ImageMagick in the official PHP builds?
There is a magickwand extension for PHP. http://www.magickwand.org/download/php/ I was involved in getting the windows builds of it made, until the lead familiarised himself with Win32/VC. The intention was to get it on pecl at some point. But the lead developer has, to my understanding, been too busy. Its quite a massive API. I think there are ~477 functions wrapped an available to be used in PHP. Which obviously is going to create huge load on documentation/bugs etc. Jared -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
