From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No support for ImageMagick 7 in emacs-26 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:26:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83efb9jf7x.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543163232 8551 195.159.176.226 (25 Nov 2018 16:27:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:27:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 17:27:08 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 1gQxFT-00027G-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 17:27:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQxHa-00039m-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQxEs-0000xa-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:26:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQxEm-0004Nu-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:26:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQxEm-0004Mx-3j; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:26:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4253 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gQxEl-0005Gd-6c; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:26:24 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Ulrich Mueller on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:26:56 +0100) 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:231341 Archived-At: > From: Ulrich Mueller > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:26:56 +0100 > > Given that ImageMagick 7 was released in April 2016, wouldn't it make > sense to support that version in the upcoming Emacs 26.2? > > AFAICS, commits 5729486951, bf1b147b55, 42ed35c68b, and 3cc42bb600 would > have to be backported for that, which doesn't seem too intrusive. > > (In fact, Gentoo has a consolidated patch for 26.1: > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/emacs-patches.git/tree/emacs/26.1/02_all_imagemagick-7.patch) It doesn't seem entirely trivial to me. ImageMagick caused quitea few problems to Emacs, so at this point I can only accept patches to support v7 on the release branch if the code used by v6.x is completely unchanged. Thanks.