svn commit: r533098 - head/editors/emacs

[Joseph Mingrone]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Monday, 27 April 2020 at 10:20:34 +0530, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
>> On 4/27/20 10:11 AM, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> Author: grog
>>> Date: Mon Apr 27 04:41:22 2020
>>> New Revision: 533098
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/533098

>>> Log:
>>>   Require ImageMagick 7, not 6.

>> Is there a more context to this change ?

> Not really.  I thought it was obvious.  ImageMagick 6 is on its way
> out, and having Emacs depend on it is a serious problem, since other
> ports depend on ImageMagick 7.  From ImageMagick6/Makefile:

> COMMENT=	Image processing tools (legacy version)

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Hello Greg,

This wasn't quite an oversight by emacs@ (Ashish and me).  There was
some discussion about this on emacs-devel@ before the 26.2 release,
there is a PR [1] (albeit a bit old), and the upcoming Emacs release,
which we are preparing for [2], will deprecate Imagemagick usage
altogether.  In any case, some discussion would be appreciated, or even
better, we welcome new members to emacs at .

Joseph

P.S. Thank you for writing [3] up.  Our university switched to Microsoft
for mail, and this is still a problem/feature.

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220306 [2]
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23966 [3]
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Rant/broken-MUA.php
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