Uwe Stöhr schrieb:
Following this logic, I should update each component of my OS everytime
an application pretends that I should have the latest/shinest versions
without a real need for them.
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> Version: @(#)ImageMagick 5.4.7 07/01/02 Q:16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> Copyright: Copyright (C) 2002 ImageMagick Studio LLC
No, but a 5 years old Imagemagick is very risky.
Its provoking, but do we have to take care about such old program
versions? If yes we'll be technically limited in fixing bugs related
to third-party products and for new features. For example the new
unicode stuff is only possible with teTeX 3 (2 years old). There are
still distributions shipping teTeX 2 which is without unicode support.
I agree! We cannot support each and every version that has been released
in the last twenty years or so.
Michael
