Move to graphicsmagick

[Casper Boemann]

Hi John

Please mind your tone.

Regarding the issue. Lots of KDE applications rely on outside libraries. Krita 
is not special in this regard. It is the resposebility of the packers to 
ensure that all required packages are available.

Oh and what do you actually mean by KDE distributions. KDE doesn't distribute 
anything ???

best regards
Casper Boemann

On Friday 26 May 2006 21:39, John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Friday 26 May 2006 13:55, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > > An email in this thread already answers that question:
> > >
> > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=114856571013674&w=2
> > >
> > > Riddell is a packager for a big distro.
> >
> > and if graphicsmagick isn't found, krita will fallback to the ImageMagick
> > version one, but as it is not anymore supported by us, it might compile
> > or might not, depending if their is once again an API change or not.
>
> So we have a application, Krita, which is supposedly part of a
> gui package, KDE, that may or may not work, depending on whether
> or not the maker of the distribution has included graphicsmagick.
>
> That pattern does not seem to fit what is expected of a
> production environment like KDE. Either graphicsmagick is to be
> included with all KDE distributions or else Krita should be
> labeled as an experimental application, not guaranteed to work
> out of the box. I prefer that latter designation. I am in the
> process of installing graphicsmagick so as to cover myself, but
> how will every user of KDE know to do that? Neither my recent
> Slackware installation nor my recent Debian installation include
> grahicsmagick.
>
> comments?