Which ImageMagick?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 27 April 2020 at 18:52:08 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> On 4/27/20 11:22 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>> If I am not mistaken, now emacs cannot be installed at the same time
>>> as for example kde5 (kdemultimedia, kdenlive, dvdauthor,
>>> ImageMagick6), inkscape (ImageMagick6), or calligra (pstoedit,
>>> ImageMagick6).
>>
>> Clearly your choice is different from mine.  I found that most ports
>> depended on ImageMagick 7, not 6.  And since it's not a legacy
>> version, it made sense to go that way.
>
> Of course, personal choices vary, but according to FreshPorts, there are
> 5+4 ports requiring ImageMagick7 for libraries or run and there are
> 30+49 für ImageMagick6. Moreover, most of the ports requiring
> ImageMagick7 are leaf ports while some of the ports requiring
> ImageMagick6 are needed by some of the big chains like the one mentioned
> above leading to kde5.

I don't do freshports, but I took a look through the ports Makefiles:

  cd /usr/ports
  find . -name Makefile | xargs grep ImageMagick6 | less

and I don't see any reference to ImageMagick in the KDE context.
Possibly it's a dependency with a different name.

What I do see is that a lot of the dependencies look like:

  ./graphics/curator/Makefile:RUN_DEPENDS=        convert:graphics/ImageMagick6

That suggests that it's only running ImageMagick programs.

Apart from that, yes, you're right, there are more hits on 6 than on
7, but by no means as many as freshports leads you to believe.

> Now emacs cannot coexist with many packages even if you disregard
> build dependencies.

That's something that we should try to change.

>>> We already have some ports depending on ImageMagick7 and some on
>>> ImageMagick6, but so far all the desktop application stick to
>>> ImageMagick6. If they move one by one, there are many conflicts that
>>> breaks desktops. Is that really the way to go?
>>
>> Yes.  The desktops should migrate too.
>
> That obviously needs some coordination.

Yes, of course, but I think it's important.

The real question is: is there any functionality in ImageMagick 6
which ports rely on and which isn't in ImageMagick 7?  That would
complicate things.  Otherwise I would think it important to upgrade
the ports as soon as possible.

This has relatively little to do with Emacs; it seems that upstream
Emacs development is trying to remove dependency on any version of
ImageMagick.

Greg
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