Re: [PEAR] Port Image_Color and Image_Canvas to PHP8

[email protected] (Mathieu Dubois)
Newsgroups php.pear.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear list,

As I said on another thread about HTML_Template_IT, I haven't received 
an answer about this. Anybody?

Thanks in advance,
Mathieu

Le 05/10/2024 à 03:13, Mathieu Dubois a écrit :
>
> Dear list,
>
> I took a bit of time to work on Image_Canvas (it was not without a bit 
> of pain):
>
>   * PR #6 (https://github.com/pear/Image_Canvas/pull/6) modernize the
>     scripts and add GitHub actions for the current code.
>   * Building on that, I was able to port to PHP 8. I will open the PR
>     after #6 is merged.
>
> There are 3 caveats however:
>
>   * PostScript output is not tested yet because I have some font issue
>     and you need the PS extension
>     (https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ps.php). It should be doable.
>   * PDF output is not tested because it uses the old PDFlib extension.
>     This code needs to be re-done completely (probably based on FPDF).
>   * As we require a version of Image_Color compatible with PHP 8, I
>     use a branch in my fork (see composer.json). Of course, I will
>     update that.
>
> Mathieu
>
> Le 02/10/2024 à 02:14, Mathieu Dubois a écrit :
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I need to (try to) port Image_Color and Image_Canvas (which require 
>> Image_Color) to PHP 8.
>>
>> For Image_Color this is not too hard. As I did for HTML_Template_IT, 
>> the goal is to keep compatibility from PHP 5.6 to PHP 8. The main 
>> challenge is to have CI and be able run the test s for a large span 
>> of PHP version (as PHPUnit changed a lot in between). I opened a 
>> first PR (https://github.com/pear/Image_Color/pull/2) to convert the 
>> test suite to PHPUnitPolyFill which is very handy. for such cases
>>
>> I have 2 branches based on that to add GitHub actions (for CI) and to 
>> port the code to PHP 8 (I will open the PR after).
>>
>> I haven't looked much to Image_Canvas for now but as the tests don't 
>> use PHPUnit (it's simple scripts), it might be a bit simpler.
>>
>> As before, I would appreciate any idea on that.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mathieu
>>
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