CVS account request (C++ wrapper)

With regards to Pierre Joye's remarks of 20 Nov 2007, I would like to
request a CVS account as kshepherd, if you decide that my help as a
developer might be useful.

I have submitted gd_io_stream.h, gd_io_stream.cxx, gdpp.h, gdpp.cxx
via Feature request FS#131:
http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=131
They greatly simplify the use of libgd in a C++ environment without
incurring any overhead, and without impacting 'C' use ( by wrapping in
__cplusplus ifdefs )

Thanks to Pierre Joye for his positive reception, and Torben Nielsen for
his suggestions and enhancements, all of which have been added.
Here is a summary if the discussion so far.

> Comment by Pierre Joye (Pierre) - Friday, 16 November 2007, 02:56
> GMT-8 

Hi Kevin!,
> 
> Thanks for the patch, it is a useful addition and was asked many
> times.
> 
> On the same topic, I was wondering if we need a c++ binding, for the
> complete GD API. Being not a c++ intensive user, I can hardly make the
> right choices/decisions. Do you have an oppinion? Would it be useful?
> 
> I added it to the 2.1.x, unless we decide to create a gd++. 
> 
> 


> Comment by Kevin Shepherd (kshepherd) - Friday, 16 November 2007,
> 15:20 GMT-8 — Edit 
> One of the strengths of libgd is that it is very well structured. For
> this reason a C++ binding is not especially important, as it would add
> very little. libgd is already object based, so a C++ wrapper would be
> trivial. 
> 
> ...
> 
> The whole thing would probably be one header file and one source file.
> It hardly seems to warrant a separate library. Perhaps the two files
> could be included in libgd, wrapped with #ifdef __cplusplus inside so
> as not to affect C only environments.
> 
> If you are interested in this approach, I would be happy to submit a
> complete version of the above outline, either attached to a message in
> this forum, or checked in to CVS if you would like to add me to your
> developer list. I have contributed to other open source projects in
> the past, such as SGI's C++ Standard Template Library, and Sourceforge
> OpenBabel. My full bio is at http://www.scarletline.com/ → "About Us"
> 
> 
> 
> Attached is a complete, tested version of a C++ wrapper for libgd. It
> comes in two files, gdpp.h and gdpp.cxx 
> 
> // Example usage, convert png to gif:
> #include <fstream>
> #include <gdpp.h>
> 
> std::ifstream in("image.png", std::ios_base::in | std::ios_base::binary );
> 
> GD::Image im(in);
> 
> if (im.good())
> 	{
> 	std::ofstream out("image.gif", std::ios_base::out | std::ios_base::binary );
> 	im.Gif(out);
> 	}
> 
> Comment by Pierre Joye (Pierre) - Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 12:53
> GMT-8  Thanks!
> 
>  You are too fast :)
> 
> I will commit tomorrow to our development tree (head, which is the
> 2.1.x branch).
> 
>  If you like to help us to maintain it and more generally to help us
> with gd, please request a CVS account. I would be glad to count you as
> one of our developers :)
> 
>  On the C++ areas, we may add more c++ code to the library. There is a
> couple of features I like to add but they depend on either C++
> implementation or libraries, your expertise in c++ will be really
> helpful. Let me know if you are interested, we can start a discussion
> on our developer list (gd-devel@).
> 
>  Thanks again for your great work! 
>

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