Desolate Condition ==> ImageMagick 7.x requests

[Richard L. Hamilton]

It looks like https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51310 <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51310> covers quite a bit of discussion starting five years ago and as recent as three weeks. Someone has a private ImageMagick-7 port that people can use locally, if they wish (bottom comment on ticket). But there's room to say that a good answer isn't necessarily an easy one. And that something being unsatisfactory doesn't mean it's being ignored entirely. :-)

> On Jan 26, 2021, at 13:01, Ken Cunningham <cunningham at medicalrounds.com> wrote:
> 
> Ryan is passionate about this question, and many have attempted to force this issue without success.
> 
> No doubt there are 50 closed tickets about it.
> 
> You will have to take it up directly with Ryan, as MacPorts' manager.
> 
> However, at some point, public demand must prevail.
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> On 2021-01-26, at 9:50 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> 
>> 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 <mailto: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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