Mike Frysinger

by default, if we have access to the original image w/metadata, we should pull it out & copy it along if possible. that just makes gd more useful as a...

is doing alpha an issue ? seems like we should.

centralizing helpers in gd_intern.h sgtm i think changing "cast_uint8" to "_u8" doesn't really lose clarity ?

i don't agree with this statement: > Master is or should be in the same state as there are no new features the whole point of having a release branch...

gd is largely a single image-at-a-time design. i don't think we have any support for reading an animated input stream, not even for gif's. we have support for outputting animated...

I don't think running source tests against an installed library is that common. I'm not sure I've really seen it done before. if it's easy to pull off, I'm not...

we should integrate https://lvc.github.io/abi-compliance-checker/ for that kind of coverage. we should be able to get it into our CI to make sure it doesn't break.

sounds great. we can add it to the travis runs to enforce it on PRs. feel like putting it together ?

github issues can be [tasks lists themselves](https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/about-task-lists). so we could make this issue into such a tracker.

i like this as an alternative to maintaining random VC proj files that are always out of date (i grok there's prob some overlap)