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 enoug

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

2002-04-13 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
I have, and so have all sorts of other people. Look at packages like jpgraph. GD does enough. It is a clean and simple library. The ImageMagick library is full of buffer overruns and crash bugs. Try drawing a big circle, for example. The thing writes all over memory it isn't supposed to. If it eve

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

2002-04-13 Thread Daniel Lorch
Hi, >> If you think that imagemagick is great, so don't you write an extention for it >yourself. >> Other developers can deside on buildtime which image library they use. Here are some additionals arguments: http://www.menalto.com/projects/gallery/modules.php?op=modload&name=GalleryFAQ&file

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

2002-04-13 Thread Daniel Lorch
Hi, >> why not replace GD by imagemagick which is better anyway? > Have you looked under the skirts of ImageMagick? It is one of the > poorest-written libraries I have seen. Have you ever tried to do something productive with GD? It is one of the poorest tools I have ever seen. Seriously: ima