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To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
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Subject: Re: ImageMagick port: source file not available 
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:26:23 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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I completely agree, but Cristy has always taken the line of "fix it
NOW" for minor bits and pieces. He's always been open to tweaking
operations at a user's request on the fly which really makes me
nervous. (Although it really helped me whan I needed a minor extension
to the labeling capability.)

The real problem is that ImageMagick has so many divergent
parts...IamgeMagick, PerlMagick, Magick++, JMagick, and probably one
or tow that I've never really played with. I think he should either
split it up with a common library or go to a stable/development scheme
similar to most larger packages as well as FreeBSD (stable/current).

But the package belongs to Cristy and he makes the final call on this
stuff. I've been using it for at least 7 years and seldom had problems
with it. It just makes it really, really hard to keep a port
up-to-date, especially soon after a new release.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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