Some years ago, the GD library was forked by the PHP project for easier building PHP with graphics support. Building GD library and PHP with GD support was always a hassle and this fork has made life much easier for PHP people.
Unfortunately, the author of the original project, Thomas Boutell, ran out of time and so had not the time to backport improvements and fixes done by the PHP development team nor do his own improvements and fixes to the library.
The consequence: Thomas has proposed to make the GD library an official PHP project and have the development of that library moved over to php.net. It seems that Pierre is going to be the new GD lead.
Congratulations to that - in my eyes perfect - decision of Thomas to propose the move, Rasmus to "accepting" GD as a PHP project and Pierre to volunteer being project lead of this well known and quite common library.
Posted Apr 02, 2006
Tagged as: GD graphics library, PHP