Hi,
>
>   I wanted to say that Apache::ImageMagick is really cool

:-)

>
>   Here're two problems I found:
>
> - when script changes, AIM should invalidate all cache entries created
> by that script - one could change color, font etc and AIM should
> recreate all corresponding images. Maybe script modification time can be
> added to the hash key?
>

Also this is possible, it would involve to much overhead, so normaly picture
serving would slow down.

The easiest solution is to delete all pictures from the cache when you
change your script. They will be recreated with new script parameter on the
next request.

> - AIM keeps file locked (open'ed?) even after the thumbnail was created
> and send to the client. It creates problems eg when one needs to remove
> stuff from cache, apache has to be restarted before etc
>

Oops, this is a bug. Fixed in Apache::ImageMagick 2.0b5

Gerald



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