From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 33587@debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: bug#33587: [PROPOSED] Default to disabling ImageMagick
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 21:09:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181203210917.GA3481@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aeef2945-f479-1de3-510c-a0534fb5239e@cs.ucla.edu>
On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 03:51:57PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > ImageMagick is the only backend that supports scaling.
>
> Good point, and if we make the change, the scaling issue should be mentioned
> in INSTALL. Perhaps something like the following wording:
>
> "Although ImageMagick support is disabled by default due to security
> and stability concerns, you can enable it by configuring with
> --with-imagemagick. ImageMagick is the only backend that supports
> image scaling."
FWIW the NS port on master supports scaling through the NS toolkit,
although there is the problem that most lisp code that wants to scale
checks exclusively for imagemagick support.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-03 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-02 18:09 bug#33587: [PROPOSED] Default to disabling ImageMagick Paul Eggert
2018-12-02 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-02 19:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-12-02 23:51 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-03 21:09 ` Alan Third [this message]
2018-12-03 19:08 ` Glenn Morris
2018-12-03 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-03 19:40 ` Glenn Morris
2018-12-04 16:51 ` David Engster
2018-12-04 17:00 ` Glenn Morris
2018-12-04 17:38 ` David Engster
2018-12-04 18:16 ` Glenn Morris
2018-12-10 17:49 ` Paul Eggert
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2019-05-14 6:15 ` Paul Eggert
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