     * Version 0.56
       Revised 03/10/2005 by Chris Gonnerman
          + added support for GIF files.
          + the minimum gd library version for this gdmodule version is
            2.0.23.
     * Version 0.55
       Revised 03/10/2005 by Chris Gonnerman
          + corrected error in the gd.image() constructor, pointed out by
            Betty Li.
          + corrected yet another obvious error reported by Greg Hewgill,
            regarding an incorrect call to gdImagePolygon when fillcolor
            is not equal to 1.
          + implemented the saveAlpha and alphaBlending features as
            suggested by Christopher Stone.
          + fixed memory management issue regarding image deallocation
            reported by Matti Jagula.
          + fixed memory management issue in image_filledpolygon reported
            by Sadruddin Rejeb.
          + the minimum gd library version for this gdmodule version is
            2.0.22.
     * Version 0.54
       Revised 03/03/2005 by Chris Gonnerman
          + this version has been withdrawn and replaced with 0.55, above.
     * Version 0.53
       Revised 06/10/2004 by Chris Gonnerman
          + corrected obvious error in image_settile(), as pointed out by
            Dan Mosedale.
          + applied some patches provided by John Hunter. Several are for
            Windows compatibility, but this should be considered a "work
            in progress" in this version.
          + corrected another obvious error (and an ancient one too)
            reported by Greg Hewgill, regarding the foreground color being
            used rather than the fill color in the image_polygon function.
          + the minimum gd library version for this gdmodule version is
            2.0.22.
     * Version 0.52
       Revised 02/03/2004 by Chris Gonnerman
          + incorporated new functions from the matplotlib project
            (provided by John Hunter)
          + corrected error in PyObject_HEAD_INIT() call noted by Stefan R
            Kuzminski (thanks!)
     * Version 0.50
       Revised 09/13/2003 by Chris Gonnerman
          + Documentation change: version 2.0.8 or higher of GD has been
            required since version 0.41 of gdmodule.
          + The library search order has been changed; /usr/local/lib is
            now the first in the search path. This is intended to support
            those trying to build against newer versions of GD which might
            conflict with an older version installed with the Linux or BSD
            distibution.
     * Version 0.42
       Revised 06/10/2003 by Chris Gonnerman
          + implemented patch by Gregory P. Smith to support writing to
            arbitrary objects, superceding the patch in 0.41 from Andreas
            Rottman. gddemo.py contains Rottman's example (which works
            with Smith's patched version) as well as an example (by me) of
            reading an image from a URL. The documentation was updated to
            reflect these changes.
     * Version 0.41
       Revised 05/29/2003 by Chris Gonnerman
          + implemented big patch by Andreas Rottmann to support writing
            images to memory via StringIO/CStringIO. Currently the only
            documentation is an example in gddemo.py.
          + implemented patch by Bob Galloway to remove the "specialness"
            of negative coordinates in the string_ttf/string_ft methods.
          + implemented patch by Nathan Robertson to enable MacOSX fink
            builds.
          + fixed bugs in the proxy class with regard to passing of
            _gd.image types.
     * Version 0.40
       Revised 09/18/2002 by Chris Gonnerman
          + updated to deal with incomplete library installs
     * Version 0.30
       Revised 06/12/2002 by Chris Gonnerman
          + initial conversion to two-tier design
     * Version 0.26
       Revised 12/10/2001 by Chris Gonnerman
          + made unicode optional via define Py_UNICODEOBJECT_H
     * Version 0.25
       Revised 09/15/2001 by Chris Gonnerman
          + implemented patch by Mike Romberg:
               o adds additional image methods, available only if GD
                 2.0.1+ is installed.
     * Version 0.24
       Revised 08/08/2001 by Chris Gonnerman
          + implemented patch by Mike Romberg:
               o supports GCC 3.0 and GD 2.0.1
               o adds public C function makeGDImage()
                    # It allows C or C++ code which uses the gd library
                      directly to make an imageobject instance.
     * Version 0.23
       Revised 11/22/2000 by Chris Gonnerman
          + included the patch from Tanimoto Osamu
          + updated support to GD version 1.8.3
          + cleaned up code, added ANSI prototypes

