Re: expanding and extending gsgd

[Manuel Guesdon]

Hi Nicola,

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:54:56 +0100 (BST) Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> 
wrote:
 >| I will probably need a graphical library to generate on the fly images
 >| displaying plots and graphical reporting - available both from ObjC and
 >| from Java - in the next weeks at work.
 >| 
 >| I know that we have a dev-libs/gsgd library on CVS, which you wrote, which
 >| is an ObjC wrapper of libgd, but now seems unmaintained (or maybe it's
 >| just stable, it works, so no need to make changes to it).

It was stable but I haven't used it for something like 2 years

 >| Can I use that library and work on it, or is it better to start a new one
 >| (which will do the same, wrap gsgd, so it seems a waste to have two
 >| different ones) ?
 >| 
 >| Warning - I will have some full days of work to dedicate on it, so I won't
 >| just make tiny changes - I need production quality software with lots of
 >| features and if that requires making big changes, I'll make them.  
 >| Anyway, I'll do my best to build on your code and make it even better.  
 >| I'll definitely add Java wrappers, and - I hope - full out-of-the-box
 >| plotting and charting facilities.

I don't know if someone else use it. Personaly, I think you can go on and 
modify it (even deeply).
 

 >| Is gsweb using gsgd ?  What parts of gsweb and what parts of gsgd ?

No.


 >| I can start a separate project - but I thought if gsweb is using gsgd,
 >| then it might benefit from work I do on gsgd, so maybe you are actually
 >| happy if I work on it rather than starting a separate library. :-)

I'd prefer you work on it except if someone else really depends on it.


Happy coding.

Manuel
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