= gdmodule =

== Description ==

From http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html: The GDmodule is an interface to the GD library written by Thomas Boutell. 'gd is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers.'

== License ==

BSD: "COPYRIGHT 1994 BY THE QUEST CENTER AT COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS. 
Permission granted for unlimited use, provided that the Quest Center at Cold Spring Harbor Labs is given credit for the library in the user-visible documentation of your software. If you modify gd, we ask that you share the modifications with us so they can be added to the distribution. See gd.html for details.

== SPKG Maintainers ==

 * Michael Abshoff

== Upstream Contact ==

 * See http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html for contact information.

== Dependencies ==

 * python
 * libpng
 * gd

== Special Update/Build Instructions ==

 * Patch Setup.py: we link against libpng12 instead of libpng. There are also changes to the library handling on Cygwin, so this might need to be fixed.

== Changelog ==

=== gdmodule-0.56.p5 (Michael Abshoff) ===
 * add .hgignore, SPKG.txt
 * clean up patches directory
 * build gdmodule against libpng12 instead of libpng (#5289)

=== gdmodule-0.56.p4 (Michael Abshoff) ===
 * Details lost to history