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Re: [PATCH 0/2] ImageMagick 7


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ImageMagick 7
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 02:34:19 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26)

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:13:41AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 05:11:03PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
>      On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
>      > So, I think we should carefully check each package that uses 
> ImageMagick
>      > directly to see if they are ready. We can check their commit logs and
>      > bug trackers for anything related to ImageMagick.
>      
>      > name: a2ps
>      
>      a2ps uses the `convert` program from ImageMagick, and its use pre-dates
>      ImageMagick 7.
>      
>      > name: awesome
>      
>      Awesome also uses `convert`, and this code is from 2009.
>      
>      So, they need to stay with ImageMagick 6 for now.
> 
> So far as I'm aware, the "convert" program's interface has not changed 
> between 6 and 7
> so unless we know of a particular problem, I don't see why they could not 
> move to vers
> 7 immediately.

The version 7 porting guide lists the changed and removed options of the
`convert` program:

https://www.imagemagick.org/script/porting.php#cli

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