ImageMagick 6 vs 7

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 20:04:00 GMT 2017


On 04/09/2017 21:52, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Marco,
> 
> A recent discussion on Fedora's devel list has brought to my attention
> that ImageMagick 7 would be incompatible with 6 not only wrt API/ABI but
> also wrt CLI (affecting scripts etc.).  It would seem prudent to stick
> with the 6 series for the time being until the Linux distributions sort
> this out.
> 
> If you concur, would you mind updating ImageMagick to the latest 6.9
> release?  It seems to be somewhat behind at the moment.
> 

I was not planning to move to 7.x for the time being.

I will look on latest 6.9 but I had the impression they bumped
the API in anycase.
It is the worst package as stability that I am aware...

Regards
Marco



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