Move to graphicsmagick

[John R. Culleton]

On Friday 26 May 2006 17:23, John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Friday 26 May 2006 17:15, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Friday 26 May 2006 21:39, John R. Culleton wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Which part of the statement from one of the most used distros I pointed
> > to is it that you misunderstood?
> >
> > If a package needs a library, then the distro's will package the library.
> > Don't take my word for it, The packagers said so.
> >
> > Don't look for problems where there are non.
>
> Well I will pursue this with the Slackware people and report
> back.

I'm back.

According to one person on alt.os.linux.slackware there is a bug
in Imagemagick which keeps the current version of KDE on Slackware
from compiling properly. Apparently the bug in Imagemagick is in
the process of being repaired. Here is the exchange:
--------------------------------------------------
 	
From:		Robby Workman - view profile
Date:		Fri, May 26 2006 10:58 pm
Email: 		Robby Workman <newsgro... at rlworkman.net>
Groups: 		alt.os.linux.slackware

On 2006-05-26, Robby Workman <newsgro... at rlworkman.net> wrote:

> On 2006-05-26, j... at wexfordpress.com <j... at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>> Krita is a KDE drawing application. Recently the developers of Krita
>> have decided that for Krita Imagemagick is to be eventually replaced by
>> Graphicsmagick, which is based on Imagemagick but is apparently
>> superior in some important ways.

>> What is the likelihood of Slackware including both Krita and
>> Graphicsmagick as part of the distribution?

> I can't answer that, but on a related note, you might find these to
> be worth a read:

> http://redux.imagemagick.org/discussion-server/viewtopic.php?p=20039#...
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127660

> For those who don't click links without a "teaser" summary, there's a bug
> in either koffice or imagemagick (I'm leaning toward imagemagick at the
> moment) which prevents koffice from building on -current at the moment.
> There's a workaround (which you'll see at one of the links), but anyway,
> the reason I mention this is because GraphicsMagick was briefly discussed
> in an IRC discussion about this bug...

Okay, "Magick" on the forum just confirmed that it was an ImageMagick issue,
and an updated release should arrive soon...

RW
--------------------------------------------------------------
If the bug is fixed then graphicsmagick may not be needed for
Slackware. Perhaps it may not be needed for Krita either. My
concern is that if the bug is fixed then graphicsmagick may not
be offered on Slackware, which will eventually make Krita not
available on that distro. 

Please don't shoot the messenger. 

-- 
John Culleton