On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 09:05:02AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>Would we be keeping these separate for a long time? Alternatives
are
>really pretty ugly and I'd hate to see that introduced just for one
>release.
After handling all the rebuilds for version 7, it is pretty rare for
an upstream to support version 7 right now. I would strike an
uneducated guess at 1-2 years for upstreams to come around to
porting. It would not surprise me if some upstreams stay at version
6 unless ImageMagick decides to stop supporting version 6. Not to
Ugh. How many of these are using the library and how many are shelling
out? Could we just tack a 6 on the end of all of the older binaries?
mention the dead upstreams where we will have to port ourselves or
our friends at Canonical and Debian that don't even have version 7
(or a recent version 6) in their repos.
Or port those to GraphicsMagick as suggested elsewhere.
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Matthew Miller
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