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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ImageMagick 6 vs 7
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7aebc84-2c95-3692-4dc7-9ca0a176364c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bebcb64-6be2-06e3-7bba-60bb2d3debd5@cygwin.com>

On 05/09/2017 00:38, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> 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.

>> 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.
> 

uploaded. They changed 3 times API between 6.9.5 and 6.9.9.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-06 12:29 UTC|newest]

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
2017-09-06 12:29     ` Marco Atzeri [this message]

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