[Pkg-octave-devel] imagemagick or graphicsmagick

[Thomas Weber]

On 13/05/08 21:38 +0200, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > the image package needs imagemagick at runtime. Should I add a
> > dependency against ImageMagick or Graphicsmagic?
> 
> Hi
> 
> I saw you chose Graphicsmagick instead of ImageMagick, any specific
> reason for that? Just for the record again :-)

Sure, Graphicsmagic is a fork of ImageMagick, with the idea of keeping
the interfaces stable. I think at least once a year some command in
octave-forge breaks due to convert's output format changing. So I choose
the stable part.

And for the monolithic octave2.9-forge package, we chose Graphicsmagic
as well (although I don't think there was any discussion).

Anyway, that decision is not cast in stone. I wanted to get the package
out, to reduce my TODO list.

	Thomas