Rasmus Lerdorf writes:
> Well, I don't actually see a license problem for non-LZW
> compressed gifs. But I am still not sure supporting GIF
> is a productive thing to do. The format needs to die. No
> sense helping it stay alive.
If there will be no gif support in the bundled gd, then there
has to be a mechanism for using external gd libs, much like
the mysql mechanism. The option --with-gd uses the bundled libs,
--with-gd=/path/to/gd uses external libs.
Removing support for gif images completely would be brutal,
and isn't a decision that PHP should be making on behalf of
its users. IMHO that is.
Frankly, I think gif support should be included and disabled
by default. Let the users decide. For the most part, they are
a fairly smart bunch. Otherwise they'd be using asp or cf or
some damn thing. :)
Best Regards
Mike Robinson
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