> Stig, I have a bit of work to do still with the bundled ext/gd/libgd so I
> would add bundled libgd to the list of major changes.  May need a bit of
> Sascha-help to get it building correctly in the new build system.

This reminds me. I'm working on implementing the current gd+freetype
functionality on Mac OS X with a CoreGraphics+ATSUI+QuickTime backend. It
will have a new, more pleasant API exposed to the PHP user -- frankly, we've
dragged the 8-bit gd baggage on the API side for long enough.

The question is this: should we take a good, long look at the GD API as
well, now that we aren't tied to a third party library? Could we even have a
new, unified set of graphics functions with different backends on different
platforms?

Also, Stig: as I stated in the 4.2.0 release note, 4.3.0 will be the first
fully supported version of PHP on Mac OS X. I have still some things left to
do -- I need to fix phpize to produce MH_BUNDLEs and implement support for
an autoload extension (or 'plugin') directory on OS X, so that GUI-bound
users can drag-n-drop PHP plugins to /System/Library/PHP/Plugins and gain
functionality automatically.

ETA for landing on the tree is four weeks.

--Marko


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