MapGuide fork of AGG

[Paul Spencer]

Steve, Daniel, I encourage you to voice your opinions on the mapguide  
internals list ... the more the better.  I would love to see some  
collaboration between mapguide and mapserver at this level.  It seems  
like easy common ground to get started talking together.

In particular, I think mapserver could benefit from Traian's  
modifications for rendering into a different buffer to solve the  
alpha problems and for the rendering on transparent background thing.

Cheers

Paul

On 22-Oct-07, at 2:12 PM, Steve Lime wrote:

> This should be a nice mess, especially if there is a broader  
> community fork of AGG 2.4. I'm curious
> why a fork is even necessary? The RFC doesn't go into any detail.  
> The one piece of code mentioned
> in the thread certainly doesn't necessitate a fork.
>
> Steve
>
>>>> On 10/20/2007 at 12:11 PM, in message <471A36AC. 
>>>> 8090403 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
> Morissette <dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM> wrote:
>> MapServer Dev's
>>
>> This is just a heads up that MapGuide has a RFC open right now about
>> adding support for AGG rendering, and as part of that they plan to  
>> fork
>> AGG 2.4 and make some improvements to it:
>>    http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc40
>>
>> A few people have already suggested on the mapguide-internals list  
>> that
>> they do that in a way that other OSGeo projects such as MapServer can
>> benefit from the improved version. Interested parties can review the
>> thread in the archives at
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-internals/2007-October/ 
>> 001922.html
>>
>> Daniel

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