[MacPorts] #51310: ImageMagick: update to 7.x
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Thu Nov 7 21:25:44 UTC 2019
#51310: ImageMagick: update to 7.x
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Reporter: mopihopi | Owner: ryandesign
Type: update | Status: assigned
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
Port: ImageMagick |
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Comment (by ryandesign):
I found [https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-
server/viewtopic.php?t=32622 this discussion] from Fedora Linux about the
problems they faced after they upgraded to ImageMagick 7. Ultimately,
following the recommendation of the developers of ImageMagick, they
downgraded back to version 6. Granted that discussion was 2 years ago so
opinions may have changed since then. But ImageMagick 6 remains supported
until 2027.
That discussion did point out something I didn't know or had forgotten,
which is that whereas ImageMagick 6 has a range of programs including
`convert` and `mogrify`, ImageMagick 7 has only a `magick` program. So
there may be fewer naming conflicts than I thought.
I have not tried to install ImageMagick 7 so I don't know if there is a
naming conflict with its pkg-config files. If there is, we could delete
the unversioned .pc files and patch all programs that use ImageMagick to
use a versioned .pc file.
If there are any remaining naming conflicts between 6 and 7, the problem
with offering an ImageMagick_select port to deal with that is that any
current port that uses ImageMagick that has not been patched or configured
properly, or any new port that uses ImageMagick that is added to MacPorts
in the future, could inadvertently use the version of ImageMagick that the
user has selected, rather than the one that was intended.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51310#comment:19>
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