Hi,
My Summer of Code proposal to work on the AppDB wasn't accepted, but I still wish to do some of the things I listed.
Anyway, I was looking at the code for image handling, and I see it is written for GD 1. Thus, any image which has to be resized gets cut down to 256 colors, and is simply resized instead of being resampled, which makes the image blocky.
According to the PHP manual, these better functions require PHP 4.0.6 and GD 2.0.1 or higher. Is the AppDB server really running such an old version of PHP that this is required?
--Mitchell Mebane
There are server upgrades that will hopefully come in the next few months that will upgrade a lot of the libraries and software on the appdb machine. This will let us use the latest version of GD. Afaik this is the only think holding up our use of the newer GD.
Jeremy, any update on when the server is getting an upgrade? Anything we can do to speed this up?
Chris
On 6/27/05, Mitchell Mebane mmebane@ev1.net wrote:
Hi,
My Summer of Code proposal to work on the AppDB wasn't accepted, but I still wish to do some of the things I listed.
Anyway, I was looking at the code for image handling, and I see it is written for GD 1. Thus, any image which has to be resized gets cut down to 256 colors, and is simply resized instead of being resampled, which makes the image blocky.
According to the PHP manual, these better functions require PHP 4.0.6 and GD 2.0.1 or higher. Is the AppDB server really running such an old version of PHP that this is required?
--Mitchell Mebane
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. -- Franklin P. Adams
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:09 -0400, Chris Morgan wrote:
Jeremy, any update on when the server is getting an upgrade? Anything we can do to speed this up?
Sorry, no ETA at this time.
Le lundi 27 juin 2005 à 11:24 -0500, Mitchell Mebane a écrit :
Hi,
My Summer of Code proposal to work on the AppDB wasn't accepted, but I still wish to do some of the things I listed.
Anyway, I was looking at the code for image handling, and I see it is written for GD 1. Thus, any image which has to be resized gets cut down to 256 colors, and is simply resized instead of being resampled, which makes the image blocky.
GD2 code is commented because we have only a very old php version on the server.
According to the PHP manual, these better functions require PHP 4.0.6 and GD 2.0.1 or higher. Is the AppDB server really running such an old version of PHP that this is required?
Exactly.
The nice thing is that when Jeremy will decide to upgrade php we will be able to regenerate every screenshot because we keep the original image as well.
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