RE: Re: [MacPerl] Help with Fly

2001-12-03 Thread Chris Nandor
At 07:54 -0800 2001.12.03, Adam Russell wrote: >GD is GPLd and if anyone wants an older version(1.3) of the source with gif >support I'll set it up on an ftp or web mirror. >I don't know if anyone ever noticed but gd didn't even use LZW gif >compression. Yes, it used RLE. But Boutell didn't want

RE: Re: [MacPerl] Help with Fly

2001-12-03 Thread Adam Russell
apparently did not infringe on Unisys patents) was some sort of silly FSF zealotry. >Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:15:44 -0500 > David Iberri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris Nandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: Perl - MacPerl ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Re: [MacPerl] Help with Fly >At 20:

Re: [MacPerl] Help with Fly

2001-12-03 Thread Chris Nandor
At 20:56 -0800 2001.12.02, David Iberri wrote: >GD.pm has been ported to Mac OS. It was included as part of the standard >MacPerl distribution for 5.2.0r4, but not the 5.6.1 development versions, >IIRC. For information on the library itself, you might try FWIW, the GIF version of GD is no longer

Re: [MacPerl] Help with Fly

2001-12-02 Thread David Iberri
on 12/2/2001 3:34 PM, Keary Suska at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The bad news is that you will have to port the code to the Mac, unless > someone already has. This might not be too difficult under OS X, but since > you say, "building... something I fail to understand completely" I assume > that mo

Re: [MacPerl] Help with Fly

2001-12-02 Thread Detlef Lindenthal
@JoVo: Not everyone knows what *Fly* is; nor did I. Now I do: *Fly* is a tool to generate graphics from scripts, from CGI input, from data bases ... ; dynamic GIF and JPEG so to say. Fly works on the server; and the (compressed) pixel picture is sent to the client. @Keary Suska: >> The bad news i

Re: [MacPerl] Help with Fly

2001-12-02 Thread Keary Suska
The bad news is that you will have to port the code to the Mac, unless someone already has. This might not be too difficult under OS X, but since you say, "building... something I fail to understand completely" I assume that modifying the source code to compile under Mac OS for MacPerl (as opposed