koffice/filters/krita/magick

[Adrian Page]

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Bart Coppens wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Friday 16 September 2005 16:42, Adrian Page wrote:
>>
>>>Is it worth considering replacing ImageMagick with the forked
>>>GraphicsMagick (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/)? Part of their 'mission
>>>statement' is to provide a stable API, unlike ImageMagick. Quoting from
>>>their FAQ:
>>
>>Oh that sounds like it would be a blessing (especially because psn says it
>>doesn't compile anymore now). Unfortunately, distros need to ship it, and
>>apparently at least debian stable doesn't have it :-/
> 
> 
> I don't know any distribution that actually ships graphicsmagick, which is
> one reason why I didn't try to switch to it already. The other reason is
> that there's not much development -- not even bugfixing or feature improvement,

Oh, ok. That's a shame.

> and finally, I always thought that one day we would leave *Magick completely
> behind us.

I'm in favour of that too. I fancy doing libpng and libtiff based 
filters at some point.

Adrian