Christoph M. Becker

PHP would likely drop the bundled libgd, if there was a solution for #335, by the way.

I'd like to drop support for explicit palette images. It's painful to maintain (we had some sec issues due to confusing `pixels` and `tpixels`, and `transparent` complicates things). And it's...

> Code has been pushed. Very interesting, but I won't have much time time to take a closer look, unfortunately. Do I understand correctly that `gdSurface` would be an alternative...

Thanks for the clarifications! This sounds very interesting, but is certainly a lot of work. I hope we can mange that. :) I'm not that much concerned regarding some minor...

Interesting. I'm still a bit concerned, though, that basically rewriting libgd might take ages given our current bandwidth.

It seems that issue has [already been resolved](https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/commit/7009fa02caaad97fc353fb11aab2d6c0c1995661). Proper reflection should be available as of 5.3.5RC1 in combination with PHP 8.

> Depends on whether this can still occur in the engine at all 🤔 Yes, it [still can happen](https://3v4l.org/BenkS). In some cases, a default cannot be specified (in this case...

It seems this extension requires several libraries, but these dependencies are not checked during configuration on Windows (in config.w32). These checks would fail for PECL builds, though, since these libs...

> Can this problem be also solved ? I tried to build OpenBLAS on Windows a while ago, but failed miserably. I have not been able to find usable prebuilt...

@mlocati, thanks for the hint! That seems to work for the vs16 builds, but apparently hangs for the vc15 builds (likely it is because they used VS 2019 for compiling/linking,...