RE: [PHP-DEV] The PHP Platform

2002-04-18 Thread Tim Thorpe
You are neglecting the FreeBSD and OpenBSD projects. Both of these operating systems have proven track records of security and reliability, both in the practical world and in the brutal world of technical security audits (just ask CERT, NASA, and the NSA). What relevance does my post have to the

RE: Re[3]: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!

2002-04-13 Thread Tim Thorpe
+1 -Original Message- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 7:48 AM To: Daniel Lorch Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[3]: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD! I have, and so have all sorts of other people. Look at packages like jpgraph. GD does enough. It i

RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: The PHP Platform

2002-04-12 Thread Tim Thorpe
That's probably the most civilized flame I've ever read. I'm impressed! -Original Message- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 6:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: The PHP Platform Cool! This is about as worked up as I have e

RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!

2002-04-12 Thread Tim Thorpe
IE support on PNG is far more mature on the Mac platform than it is on Windows/Solaris. Don't know when MS is planning to finish their implementation for these platforms but Alpha channels don't even work right yet so I think MNG support is at least another major release away. :( As far as GIFs

RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!

2002-04-11 Thread Tim Thorpe
Was composing that same message when I received it. +1 -Original Message- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:05 AM To: Georg Richter Cc: Markus Fischer; Stig S. Bakken; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD! > On Friday, 12. A

RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!

2002-04-11 Thread Tim Thorpe
I don't see how complex it could be. Anyone who is running X most likely has all of the prerequisite libraries installed (png, jpg, zlib) and those who aren't are almost certainly savvy enough to figure it out. Windows builds would be another situation entirely... The configure script can check f

RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Let's fork GD!

2002-04-11 Thread Tim Thorpe
+1 I have a function that performs arbritrary rotations of images using subsampling. (side-by-side comparisons show it to be virutally identical in results to Photoshop). If GD 2.0 becomes standardized I'd love to have my function included. (I'd like to contribute to this idea if support exists)