Bug 1957, a solution... (sort of)

[Dave McIlhagga]

Geo-GD ?  :)

Dave

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Steve Lime wrote:
>> Hi all: I've been putzing around with bug 1957 testing. It's a problem
>> with GD where it's clipping too soon with brushed lines which leaves
>> artifacts along image edges. The wider the line the more obvious the
>> artifact. Plays havoc when tiling. Anyway, on a whim I installed the
>> version of GD that Autodesk updated as part of MapGuide figuring they
>> must have seen this behavior. They did and that code works great, no
>> artifacts.
>>
>> So, what to do next? I don't want to have to fix GD yet again and I know
>> Bob and Gary had always intended to contribute their GD modifications
>> back to that project. I'm wondering about the possiblity of de-coupling
>> the Autodesk version of GD from MapGuide for a broader distribution-
>> sort of an OSGeo-branded GD. What do folks think?
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I think forking a copy of GD which can be shared between MapGuide and
> MapServer is a good idea.  And that we might look into other
> quality-of-rendering improvements that can be made in such a fork.
> 
> We should also work to accept patches from the world at large to the extent
> we can handle them.
> 
> As Howard mentions we should make at least one more attempt to contact
> Thomas Boutell before forking, but it certainly seems to me that he has
> lost interest.  Assuming this remains the case we could work torwards
> making the forked GD be the one used by linux distributions over time.
> 
> Best regards,