Sriram: I have cc:ed James Cheng who works on the mediaLib team and the viseng at sun.com mailing list (the mediaLib team mailing list).
Since you are interested in enhancing PHP to use mediaLib, it probably makes sense to discuss this further with the mediaLib team directly. They would be best able to answer questions you have, I think. Brian > I am currently thinking of porting libgd that is bundled within php to > use MediaLib so that it can benefit (especially on SPARC). Currently, > PHP is not within Media / LiveCD. So, that should not be a problem. > > If I understand correctly, I will need MediaLib runtime libraries along > with my application. Is there going to be a IPS package for this that I > can simply depend on ? Also, has any component within SFW or other > component have successfully integrated their application to depend on > Media Lib ? > > - Sriram > > On 12/16/09 3:13 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: >> >> Alan: >> >>> Sriram Natarajan wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> Has any one considered compiling some of the open source CPU intensive >>>> applications with MediaLib ? I am evaluating on the benefits of >>>> compiling PHP's GD library with this tool and I want to know if any one >>>> has done this before and is this approach going to be accepted within >>>> Open Solaris SFW build system ? >> >> Note that mediaLib is dual-licensed under the CDDL and the LGPL, so it >> is normally possible to get mediaLib changes accepted upstream into >> GPL'ed programs: >> >> http://projectkenai.com/projects/openmlib >> >> I believe GTK+ is the only free software module that I know of which >> uses mediaLib. >> >>>> http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/mlibfiles.html >>> >>> GTK has used medialib for a while for image scaling and similar >>> operations. >>> I've cc'ed Brian Cameron who did a lot of that work and would be able to >>> best explain the benefits they saw. >> >> Are there any specific questions? >> >>> However, all the applications linked with it have had to make sure that >>> usage is optional (i.e. dlopen() not direct link) since there's not >>> enough room on the OpenSolaris LiveCD's for the very large size of the >>> MediaLib libraries in all their CPU-specific variations. >> >> I think this is only true if the program which uses mediaLib is also on >> the LiveCD (as is the case with GTK+). If the program using mediaLib is >> not on the LiveCD, then it should be fine to just require the mediaLib >> packages so they get downloaded and installed as dependencies when you >> use the package manager to install the program which uses it. >> >> Brian >> >>
