On 18 May 2006, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2006 19:40:35 +0300 Liviu Daia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > > But see, most people don't care about 29MB of hard drive space
> > > being used.
> >
> > Do you have statistical figures to back up this statement?
>
> How many people waste their time deleting every file they don't need
> from their machines?
I don't know. Which is precisely why I'll refrain from making
blanket statements about them. :-)
[...]
> > > > > Truecolor images. Support for gifs. Anti-aliased fonts.
> > > >
> > > > Are these relevant to my question? If you still don't get
> > > > it, what I'm asking is: what are the disadvantages of keeping
> > > > both 2.0.x and 1.8.x?
> > >
> > > Yes, they are.
> >
> > You are (probably intentionally) confusing features with
> > utility.
>
> No, I am answering the question. That is why gd was upgraded. How is
> fixing the longstanding lack of true color image support not useful?
[...]
How is it useful? (Hint: you can't talk about utility outside a
context. Useful to whom, for what purpose, with what costs?)
Now, while I do like a good pissing contest as much as the next guy
out there, :-) you'll have to excuse me. I did make my point in full
detail, and I did get other people's opinions on it. So I'll stop here.
Regards,
Liviu Daia
--
Dr. Liviu Daia http://www.imar.ro/~daia
