Desolate Condition ==> ImageMagick 7.x requests

[Richard L. Hamilton]

The first Bad Idea reason I imagine is if some port(s) that depend on ImageMagick don't play nice with the latest version, to the point where having them work is preferable to having ImageMagick be current.

A counter-argument would be HEIF support (which a quick google suggests was added in ImageMagick 7.0.7-22).

For a number of ports, there is the ability to have multiple versions installed at once; or rather, separate ports for different versions, using distinct pathnames, and often a way to select which is the default. Depending on difficulty, I'd wonder if that would be an option, absent a cleaner solution.


> On Jan 26, 2021, at 04:00, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> For example, ImageMagick is at 7.0.10 in brew, but still at 6.9.11 in ports.
> 
> For years now people have requested a 7.x version of this in MacPorts...Ryan could probably update it in less than 5 minutes.
> 
> But there is some reason I never bothered to read through why that is a Bad Idea.
> 
> Doesn't stop the monthly requests since as long as I've been around, though :)
> 
> K

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