[70035] trunk/dports/graphics/ImageMagick/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 27, 2010, at 11:50, Eric Hall wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:33:09AM -0700, ryandesign at macports.org wrote:
>> Revision: 70035
>>          http://trac.macports.org/changeset/70035
>> Author:   ryandesign at macports.org
>> Date:     2010-07-27 09:33:08 -0700 (Tue, 27 Jul 2010)
>> Log Message:
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>> ImageMagick: delete +perl variant; use p5-perlmagick instead
> 
> 
> 	Please revert this change.  p5-perlmagick has had a
> very poor track record for staying current with ImageMagick,
> in fact right now its not current (ImageMagick is at 6.6.3-0,
> p5-perlmagick is freshly upgraded to 6.59 (aka ImageMagick 6.5.9-1).
> 	In fact, my suggestion is to remove the p5-perlmagick
> port and aim people to using ImageMagick +perl if they want
> the perl<-->ImageMagick interface.

I don't really want to, because I want ImageMagick's perl interface in a separate port so it can be depended upon and installed separately. p5-perlmagick now compiles again and hopefully it even works.

The alternative is to switch the p5-perlmagick port to use the perlmagick source that's part of the ImageMagick source code. I really didn't understand why there was a separate p5-perlmagick release at all when the code is already in the ImageMagick sources, and presumably there it's up to date. I worked on trying to use that source instead, but got stuck trying to figure out how to get all the necessary changes into Makefile.PL. I can open a new ticket and attach my efforts so far; maybe someone else can get further with it.