Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:22:50 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> Cc: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Which ImageMagick? (was: svn commit: r533098 - head/editors/emacs) Message-ID: <20200427092250.GH88862@eureka.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <ab64ecc6-0866-6dbb-51c6-5edd95a93390@janh.de> References: <f9472213-b26b-285e-29ff-4260ecb4d1e9@FreeBSD.org> <ab64ecc6-0866-6dbb-51c6-5edd95a93390@janh.de>
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--9sSKoi6Rw660DLir Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 27 April 2020 at 10:46:30 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > On 4/27/20 10:33 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 27 April 2020 at 10:20:34 +0530, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >>> On 4/27/20 10:11 AM, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> Author: grog >>>> Date: Mon Apr 27 04:41:22 2020 >>>> New Revision: 533098 >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/533098 >>>> >>>> Log: >>>> Require ImageMagick 7, not 6. >>> >>> Is there a more context to this change ? >> >> Not really. I thought it was obvious. ImageMagick 6 is on its way >> out, and having Emacs depend on it is a serious problem, since other >> ports depend on ImageMagick 7. From ImageMagick6/Makefile: >> >> COMMENT= Image processing tools (legacy version) > > I do not see that "on its way out" is a coordinated effort. Agreed. It's a mess. > If I am not mistaken, now emacs cannot be installed at the same time > as for example kde5 (kdemultimedia, kdenlive, dvdauthor, > ImageMagick6), inkscape (ImageMagick6), or calligra (pstoedit, > ImageMagick6). Clearly your choice is different from mine. I found that most ports depended on ImageMagick 7, not 6. And since it's not a legacy version, it made sense to go that way. > We already have some ports depending on ImageMagick7 and some on > ImageMagick6, but so far all the desktop application stick to > ImageMagick6. If they move one by one, there are many conflicts that > breaks desktops. Is that really the way to go? Yes. The desktops should migrate too. Of course, the correct thing to do is to ensure that both ImageMagicks can coexist. I wasn't aware of the desktop issues, since I don't use them, but basically at the moment the conflicts really make life difficult. Does anybody see a solution? For Emacs, we could create versions for ImageMagic 6 and for ImageMagick 7, but that seems very distasteful. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --9sSKoi6Rw660DLir Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl6mpGoACgkQIubykFB6QiOo8QCdGyq8FtS1YQLgnUJS9kYY4fx+ 7mUAoLLFTvzHIZvCk6RF+RVXhiUKXsZ+ =sK0l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9sSKoi6Rw660DLir--
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