[mapserver-dev] RFC99: Remove GD support in 7.0

[thomas bonfort]

Daniel,
While gif output support is not in my immediate plans, adding it in is
trivial and will cost me a fraction of the time I have already wasted
supporting the GD backend.

cheers,
thomas


On 7 June 2013 17:13, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:

> Another side-effect which is documented but perhaps some readers of the
> RFC may have overlooked, is that it will no longer be possible to produce
> GIF output at all.
>
> One could implement encoding to GIF through an 8 bit AGG renderer and
> libgif, but I don't think that is in Thomas' plans.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 13-06-07 11:11 AM, Havard Tveite wrote:
>
>> I agree that it would be very good to get rid of GD.
>>
>> The only problem I see is that it is not possible to turn
>> off anti-aliasing.  That causes thin lines to appear in some
>> cases when using vector symbols for area fills.
>>
>> Håvard
>>
>> On 6/7/2013 3:27 PM, thomas bonfort wrote:
>>
>>> Devs and Users,
>>>
>>> Please have a look at RFC99
>>> (http://mapserver.org/**development/rfc/ms-rfc-99.html<http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-99.html>
>>> **). I am
>>> particularly interested in use-cases that would not be supported if GD
>>> were to be removed.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Thomas
>>>
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