ImageMagick renamed runtime lib names

Dr. Volker Zell dr.volker.zell@oracle.com
Fri Mar 21 12:10:00 GMT 2008


>>>>> Volker Quetschke writes:

    > Since upstream version 6.3.8-5 of ImageMagick the following changes
    > were made:

    > Renames:
    >  /usr/local/include => /usr/local/include/ImageMagick
    >  libMagick => libMagickCore
    >  libWand => libMagickWand
    >  Magick-config (deprecated) => MagickCore-config
    >  Wand-config (deprecated) => MagickWand-config

    > And as the api changed the library version was changed from
    > 10 to 1.

    > Well, we used to pack the runtime libraries libMagick, libWand and
    > libMagick++ in a libMagick10 package.

    > As there was never a libMagick1 package in cygwin, this would
    > be no problem, except that I don't like that a newer library
    > now has a smaler number.

    > As the package collects all runtime library files, i.e. libMagickWand,
    > libMagickCore and libMagick++ I would tend to call that package

    > libMagickWCP1

    > ?

    > But I am open for suggestions. Does anyone have a better name? Or
    > shall I just call it libMagick1 ?

Probably the authors take care of library versioning. So i would not
fiddle with the package name. If there will be a version clash sometime
in the future you can take action then. What matters are the dependencies.
    
    >   Volker

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