Jørn Wildt

Hi,

Another thing I think would be useful in Photoshare, and that goes in the direction of the light and non-bloated philosophy tha seems to adopt the software, is to provide the ability not to be dependent on the GD PHP extension. I can see two reasons for that:
- this would enable people whose hosting doesn't have the GD extension to use Photoshare (Postnuke works with a standard PHP installation with no extension), therefore making the server side requirements equivalent to the Postnuke ones.
- some people may want to produce the thumnails themselves, for quality reasons, they may use tools providing better subsampling algorithms than the one used by GD.

I think the GD extension should then not be a requirement. When GD is not present OR by user request, it would be possible to upload the thumbnail in addition to the large version of the image.

Olivier.

I get your point, but removing GD all completely would also mean removing the image rotating feature as well as future extensions, so I don't know if it's such a good idea. I also expect GD to be such a widespread extension, that I don't think it's such a big problem.

Anyway - it's on the list, but pretty much at the bottom.

Hi J?rn,

Just for clarity, there are 2 sides to my request, one about the GD independence, the other about the ability for people to upload their own thumbnails. The two can be considered separately, knowing that in the mode where people upload their own thumbnails, GD is then no more necessary so may be removed from the list of mandatory requirements, as it may not.

Olivier.