I have used libgd for lots of graphics; writing text on images made by other programs, for example. Big investment. The library works when dynamically linked, but I get a raft of errors when I try to statically link it. Still investigating that.
In 2007, the original author Thomas Boutell passed version 2.0.33 on to the PHP folks, to be maintained at www.libgd.org . About a year of activity, then nothing, development stopped at 2.0.36RC. with a release candidate that never released. Sounds like my code :-( Unfortunately, a lot of other packages, like gnuplot, pstoedit, and inkscape depend on libgd. If libgd dies of dependency failure, so do they. And now, www.libgd.org is down. I haven't looked at it for a few months. I'm guessing the reason relates to this headline from www.php.net: > php.net security notice > [19-Mar-2011] > > The wiki.php.net box was compromised and the attackers were > able to collect wiki account credentials. No other machines > in the php.net infrastructure appear to have been affected. > Our biggest concern is, of course, the integrity of our source > code. We did an extensive code audit and looked at every commit > since 5.3.5 to make sure that no stolen accounts were used to > inject anything malicious. Nothing was found. The compromised > machine has been wiped and we are forcing a password change > for all svn accounts. > > We are still investigating the details of the attack which > combined a vulnerability in the Wiki software with a Linux > root exploit. I assume the PHP wiki software was written in PHP, the public bathhouse orgy of programming languages. But then so is mediawiki. Yikes! I suppose I ought to ask a question about now. Here goes: libgd is not getting developed. Its dependencies may be depreciating. What function libraries are people using to synthesize 2-D images these days? ImageMagick? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
