From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ImageMagick 7
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 02:34:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170113073419.GA16699@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170113051341.GA8207@jocasta.intra>
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:13:41AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 05:11:03PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > So, I think we should carefully check each package that uses ImageMagick
> > directly to see if they are ready. We can check their commit logs and
> > bug trackers for anything related to ImageMagick.
>
> > name: a2ps
>
> a2ps uses the `convert` program from ImageMagick, and its use pre-dates
> ImageMagick 7.
>
> > name: awesome
>
> Awesome also uses `convert`, and this code is from 2009.
>
> So, they need to stay with ImageMagick 6 for now.
>
> So far as I'm aware, the "convert" program's interface has not changed between 6 and 7
> so unless we know of a particular problem, I don't see why they could not move to vers
> 7 immediately.
The version 7 porting guide lists the changed and removed options of the
`convert` program:
https://www.imagemagick.org/script/porting.php#cli
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-09 19:37 [PATCH 0/2] ImageMagick 7 Leo Famulari
2017-01-09 19:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Update imagemagick to version 7.0.4-3 Leo Famulari
2017-01-09 19:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add imagemagick-6 Leo Famulari
2017-01-09 23:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] ImageMagick 7 Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-09 23:19 ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-11 20:18 ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-12 22:11 ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-13 5:13 ` John Darrington
2017-01-13 7:34 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-03-11 17:34 ` Leo Famulari
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