ImageMagick 6 vs 7

[Marco Atzeri]

On 05/09/2017 00:38, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> 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.

>> 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.
> 

uploaded. They changed 3 times API between 6.9.5 and 6.9.9.