Overlapping images

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 29, 2010, at 00:36, Andrea D'Amore wrote:

> while installing "compare" port I bumped into this error:
> 
> --->  Activating compare @1.16_1
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
> /opt/local/bin/compare is being used by the active ImageMagick port.
> Please deactivate this port first, or use 'port -f activate compare'
> to force the activation.
> 
> 
> Seems ImageMagick and compare have the same name for their tool, is
> there a specific policy in such a case or how do you suggest to solve
> it?

It looks like the latest version of compare is 1.16 which is from 2004, and it doesn't have a homepage (at least not defined in the port), while ImageMagick's homepage is voluminous and the software is actively developed, sometimes releasing several new versions a week. So I say ImageMagick wins. :) Maybe I'm also biased because I'm the ImageMagick maintainer and I use ImageMagick all the time, whereas I had not heard of this other compare tool until you just mentioned it.

I guess the policy is that the maintainers of the conflicting ports should work out what should be done. I marked the ports as conflicting for now. We could change the compare port so it installs the file under a different name or in a different location to resolve the conflict. Markus, what do you think we should do?