From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ImageMagick 6 vs 7
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 22:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9bebcb64-6be2-06e3-7bba-60bb2d3debd5@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5f42dbc-91de-9729-e639-19dffe0f9e15@gmail.com>
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On 2017-09-04 15:03, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 04/09/2017 21:52, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> A recent discussion on Fedora's devel list has brought to my attention
>> that ImageMagick 7 would be incompatible with 6 not only wrt API/ABI but
>> also wrt CLI (affecting scripts etc.). It would seem prudent to stick
>> with the 6 series for the time being until the Linux distributions sort
>> this out.
>>
>> If you concur, would you mind updating ImageMagick to the latest 6.9
>> release? It seems to be somewhat behind at the moment.
>
> I was not planning to move to 7.x for the time being.
Probably for the best.
> I will look on latest 6.9 but I had the impression they bumped
> the API in anycase.
Yes, but it sounds like that shouldn't require more than a customary
rebuild of the few packages which use libMagick{Core,Wand}6.
> It is the worst package as stability that I am aware...
It's definitely among the worst. I do wonder if at least 6 will settle
down ABI-wise with 7 out, but given their history, who knows.
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Yaakov
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-04 19:52 Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-09-04 20:04 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-09-04 22:38 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2017-09-06 12:29 ` Marco Atzeri
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