antigrain.com is squatted
techtonik opened this issue · 6 comments
There are no links except spam.
antigrain.com is not our website. We originally downloaded the C library "agg" from that site which aggdraw wraps so it can be accessed from python, but otherwise it is a separate project. You'll have to contact the AGG maintainers.
This project links to the squatters. Contact of AGG maintainer is also located on this domain. I thought that you are more closely connected with upstream. Whatever..
Sorry, this may have sounded more dismissive than I meant it to be. This project went unmaintained for some years until we picked it up because of our (pytroll's) dependence on it. We never had any direct contact with the AGG maintainer(s) although the original aggdraw maintainer may have.
Last I remember, the AGG library was picked up by a new developer some years ago and made the last couple releases.
You're right that we should update our documentation to not link to the website, but I'm not really sure of an alternative. I had noticed the odd behavior of the antigrain.com website, but assumed it was a temporary thing and would be resolved by the new AGG maintainer.
If it was a part of my project history, I'd attempt one of those:
- Link to web.archive.org
- Contact SF mailing list
- Recover the old version of website and deploy on GitHub Pages
If someone has time to update the links to the archived version of the site that would be really appreciated. If someone can find out what happened to the last maintainer of the site (I think someone did pick up the project and made a couple new releases) and whether they are open to starting a new site or getting the old one back, also appreciated.