From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Did you say "community"? What's that?!? (Episode 2)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:16:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k631700u.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <J76U4V$C9EC2A97717EF3577D22E6D42F4C616D@poste.it> (Marco Maggi's message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:34:07 +0200")
"Marco Maggi" <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it> writes:
> In the first episode I asked for some help to
> complete my Guile binding to OpenSSL, which I have
> to admit is not much fun to code.
Out of interest, what happened with that, and how does it relate to
the TLS bindings that Aaron Van Devender (IIRC) was working on over
the summer?
> Now I have written a binding[1] to GD[2] (the
> graphics library etc.) which, you have to admit
> IS somewhat funny.
Why is it funny?
> Most of the code is there,
> with the exception of FreeType font text
> functions: I cannot write code and test the
> library with FreeType now, I need some help.
>
> So, if you are a Linux+GNU user, you may try to
> complete it and then send me a patch or a C file
> with the additional functions and a Scheme file
> with some tests. Discussion can take place on the
> 'gee-users' mailing list, hosted at GNA!
I think this kind of offer/appeal is implicit in any free software
project; I'm not sure you have to say it explicitly.
> It is not difficult to code it: we are talking
> about a direct interface to 3 functions:
>
> gdImageStringFT gdImageStringFTEx gdImageStringFTCircle
>
> it is "long", though, because there are many
> options to be selected.
But perhaps not all of those options need to be exposed to the Scheme
binding?
> To ease the browsing I have translated the
> original GD documentation from (bad) HTML to
> (nice) Texinfo source:
That sounds like something to feed back to the upstream GD project.
Regards,
Neil
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-15 17:34 Did you say "community"? What's that?!? (Episode 2) Marco Maggi
2006-10-15 21:16 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2006-10-19 23:18 ` Aaron VanDevender
2006-10-20 20:49 ` Neil Jerram
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2006-10-17 6:09 Marco Maggi
2006-10-17 15:11 Marco Maggi
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