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: Re: Linking to ImageMagick by default Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:24:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544030670 17687 195.159.176.226 (5 Dec 2018 17:24:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:24:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 05 18:24:26 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 1gUauN-0004Pg-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:24:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUawT-00022h-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUauG-0007oQ-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:24:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUauD-0001YH-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gUau4-0001OC-6O; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:24:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gUau3-0006Wg-Ua; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:24:03 -0500 X-Spook: John Kerry Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb National X-Ran: T!H{wJJ^JVe@,]fv@{&hQ[$#Gm`g4\.GLA{RDhK:B5= (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:30:34 +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:231632 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Without image scaling, modes that display images become pretty > worthless. I think that is an issue that will vary from person to person. > I think the long term solution here is to implement image scaling in > Emacs (probably not very hard) and then drop ImageMagick-by-default > after that's been done. Do you have an opinion of GraphicsMagick? It claims to be more stable and secure than ImageMagick. I guess that someone who knows the Emacs ImageMagick code could port it to GraphicsMagick fairly easily. (I don't, and didn't, bug#14358).