From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Linking to ImageMagick by default Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:33:04 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543714311 1323 195.159.176.226 (2 Dec 2018 01:31:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 01:31:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 02 02:31:47 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gTGbr-0000D6-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 02:31:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43100 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTGdx-0004Y5-Hs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39253) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTGd7-0004Xm-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:33:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTGd6-000587-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:33:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43209) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTGd6-000581-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:33:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gTGd6-00048i-GC; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:33:04 -0500 X-Spook: Brownout encryption Homeland security Shots fired China X-Ran: !y.dyVS~pBC]aFwd$49):8`3|rBs/D}.'=rRl+Lyg(g8+$gh4X%A:WQ!&URu31K|Mp;541 X-Hue: brightblue X-Attribution: GM X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231583 Archived-At: There seems to be a fair number of Emacs crashes that are due to ImageMagick. The next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will drop ImageMagick (though I would expect it to be available from an "add-on" repository like EPEL). In https://lwn.net/Articles/772315/ there is speculation that this is due to the poor stability and security record of ImageMagick. (AFAICS from the RHEL8 release notes, it is _not_ replaced by GraphicsMagick, but rather nothing.) Is it worth reconsidering whether Emacs should link to ImageMagick by default? The pros are support for more formats and rescaling, the cons are crashes. (I don't have anything substantive to add, and the lwn discussion is hardly rigorous.)