[mapserver-dev] Re: Decoupling Image creation from GD

[thomas bonfort]

6.0
I should be merging with trunk in the coming days

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 07:46, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
> Aha. Is the sandbox scheduled to land in 6.0 or 6.1?
> P
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> On 2010-11-02, at 3:46 PM, thomas bonfort wrote:
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>> Paul,
>> The code in my sandbox does that:
>> - GD library and structure is used only when working in a PC256 format.
>> - in RGB/RGBA, agg/cairo have their own memory structure, and there is
>> custom code in the trunk based on libpng/libjpeg to compress that
>> memory buffer.
>>
>> regards,
>> thomas
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>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 07:23, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
>>> Thomas,
>>> At the last sprint, I think I asked you if there were any plans to
>>> stop using GD to generate our final JPEG/PNG/etc images. When I look
>>> at the AGG driver for example, all the work is done against the GD
>>> image structure, which is finally passed to GD to create the image. I
>>> vaguely remember at the time you said there was a plan to change to a
>>> more standard RGBA structure and convert that to JPEG/PNG/etc
>>> directly. Is that plan still in action or is it a Vague Future Notion?
>>> Paul
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