Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Re: [macperl-porters] GD

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Allan Greenier wrote:

> This is really lousy.Png's are a poor substitute for gifs...any html I
> ever do the client wants backwards compatibility. Heck I till use
> netscape 3..(I like it, I'm used to it).
> And I've had a bit of fun with GD recently and was looking forward to
> more...
> http://www.geocities.com/~autoscript/all.html
> http://www.geocities.com/~autoscript/bigsquare.html
> Another example of commerce strangling innovation...
> 
Like Chris said, we're not looking at doing away with GD by any means.
It's just that there is some question about libgd, the C library that the
GD extension is based on. It all has to do with the patent on LZW
compression.

I think it really affects us only peripherally. Because we certainly will
be able to have *a* GD.

I brought ImageMagick into the discussion because I think it's appropriate
to discuss MacPerl support for more image formats. PerlMagick has made
ImageMagick functionality available to Unix people for quite a while, and
in conjunction with the helper libraries you have access to a whole bunch
of formats. Pretty much all of the non-display part of both is a suitable
candidate for MacPerlifying.

Think of this as being a related discussion.

Arved



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