Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2013-01-18 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
Pierre Joye in php.internals (Thu, 6 Sep 2012 18:43:01 +0200): On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Rasmus Schultz ras...@mindplay.dk wrote: I opened this bug report 2 years ago: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52756 Hmmm. I see it is still open. Is GD still actively maintained? yes. Slowly but

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-07 Thread Lester Caine
Rasmus Schultz wrote: Thank you - this confirms I'm not crazy, or at least it's evidence to support that theory;-) It may be OS specific - perhaps the Windows and OSX binaries are built against a different build (or configuration) of FreeType? Rasmus Something that is also worth bearing in

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-07 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Lester, On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Rasmus Schultz wrote: Thank you - this confirms I'm not crazy, or at least it's evidence to support that theory;-) It may be OS specific - perhaps the Windows and OSX binaries are built against a different

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-07 Thread Rasmus Schultz
Good point - the bug could actually be in the rendering, rather than in the bounding box calculation. We could determine which is the case, by running the exact same script with the exact same font, on a system where the bug is present, and on another system where it's not. Then overlay the

[PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Rasmus Schultz
I opened this bug report 2 years ago: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52756 Is GD still actively maintained? If it isn't, then perhaps it's time to start thinking about switching to a graphics library that is maintained? Perhaps something more modern with real drawing capabilities and a better

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Andrew Faulds
I briefly asked Pierre about a feature in it recently. By the sounds of it, it is being actively maintained, albeit perhaps slowly. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Andrew Faulds http://ajf.me/ Rasmus Schultz ras...@mindplay.dk wrote: I opened this bug report 2 years ago:

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Alexey Shein
Hi, Rasmus, Just wanted to note that I've tested your script from http://fontjazz.com/metrics/test.php and couldn't reproduce the bug. I'm on the Ubuntu 12.04 with PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2 with Suhosin-Patch Have you tried upgrading your FreeType library and recompiling latest stable PHP with it?

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Jannik Zschiesche
Am Donnerstag, 6. September 2012 um 15:05 schrieb Alexey Shein: Hi, Rasmus, Just wanted to note that I've tested your script from http://fontjazz.com/metrics/test.php and couldn't reproduce the bug. I'm on the Ubuntu 12.04 with PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2 with Suhosin-Patch Have you tried

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Alexey Shein
2012/9/6 Jannik Zschiesche he...@apfelbox.net: Am Donnerstag, 6. September 2012 um 15:05 schrieb Alexey Shein: Hi, Rasmus, Just wanted to note that I've tested your script from http://fontjazz.com/metrics/test.php and couldn't reproduce the bug. I'm on the Ubuntu 12.04 with PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Tom Boutell
The good news is that gd is pretty moribund, there isn't a lot to maintain. But things do come up. libgd.org has been displaying the same oops crap something happened notice for... three years? At least? If there is no momentum to fix that, as the original developer of gd I would be willing to

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Rasmus, On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Rasmus Schultz ras...@mindplay.dk wrote: I opened this bug report 2 years ago: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52756 Is GD still actively maintained? yes. Slowly but yes, we will finally merge 2.1 in 5.5 too. Perhaps something more modern with

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Pierre Joye
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Tom Boutell t...@punkave.com wrote: libgd.org has been displaying the same oops crap something happened notice for... three years? At least? If there is no momentum to fix that, as the original developer of gd I would be willing to restore the classic gd

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Rasmus Schultz
Jannik, Thank you - this confirms I'm not crazy, or at least it's evidence to support that theory ;-) It may be OS specific - perhaps the Windows and OSX binaries are built against a different build (or configuration) of FreeType? Or it could be specific to 32 or 64 bit builds. I have never

Re: [PHP-DEV] is GD being actively maintained?

2012-09-06 Thread Pierre Joye
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Rasmus Schultz ras...@mindplay.dk wrote: Jannik, Thank you - this confirms I'm not crazy, or at least it's evidence to support that theory ;-) It may be OS specific - perhaps the Windows and OSX binaries are built against a different build (or configuration)