Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:20:01 -0700 (PDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/14309: Update graphics/gd to 1.7.5 Message-ID: <199910140120.SAA01501@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/14309; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
To: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/14309: Update graphics/gd to 1.7.5
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 21:07:26 -0400 (EDT)
I finished the same update about two minutes before I read your
PR. If "real work" hadn't got in the way I'd have beat you. :)
Might I suggest that DESCR and COMMENT be updated to better
reflect reality?
--- DESCR.old Wed Sep 8 19:42:17 1999
+++ DESCR Wed Oct 13 15:10:54 1999
@@ -2,22 +2,20 @@
gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images
complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from
- other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a .GIF file.
- This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where .GIF
- is the format used for inline images.
+ other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a .PNG
+ file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications,
+ where .PNG is one of the formats accepted for inline images by most
+ browsers.
- gd is not a paint program. If you are looking for a paint program, try
- xpaint by David Koblas, available by anonymous FTP from ftp.netcom.com
- in pub/ko/koblas. (That package is for the X Window System; for the Mac
- and the PC, paint programs are considerably easier to find.)
+ gd is not a paint program. If you are looking for a paint program, you
+ are looking in the wrong place. If you are not a programmer, you are
+ looking in the wrong place.
- gd does not provide for every possible desirable graphics operation. It
- is not necessary or desirable for gd to become a kitchen-sink graphics
- package, but version 1.3 incorporates most of the commonly requested
- features for an 8-bit 2D package. Support for scalable fonts, and
- truecolor images, JPEG and PNG is planned for version 2.0. Version 1.3
- was released to correct longstanding bugs and provide an LZW-free GIF
- compression routine.
+ gd does not provide for every possible desirable graphics operation.
+ It is not necessary or desirable for gd to become a kitchen-sink
+ graphics package, but version 1.7.4 incorporates most of the commonly
+ requested features for an 8-bit 2D package. Support for truecolor
+ images, JPEG and truecolor PNG is planned for version 2.0.
AUTHOR
gd 1.2 was written by Thomas Boutell and is currently distributed by
--- COMMENT.old Thu Feb 13 09:51:45 1997
+++ COMMENT Wed Oct 13 15:08:41 1999
@@ -1 +1 @@
-A graphics library for fast GIF creation
+A graphics library for fast PNG creation
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