ImageMagick 6 vs 7

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2017-09-04 15:03, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 04/09/2017 21:52, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> 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.

Probably for the best.

> I will look on latest 6.9 but I had the impression they bumped
> the API in anycase.

Yes, but it sounds like that shouldn't require more than a customary
rebuild of the few packages which use libMagick{Core,Wand}6.

> It is the worst package as stability that I am aware...

It's definitely among the worst.  I do wonder if at least 6 will settle
down ABI-wise with 7 out, but given their history, who knows.

-- 
Yaakov

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