On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Mark Wheeler wrote:
> Ok... it seems to me that my two best options are as follows:
>
> 1. Install fink and then install ImagaMagick (as per below)
> 2. Install PerlMagick
> 3. Install the addition C libraries so as to have access to image manipulation
> and compression and such
The third step automatically happens as a subset of the first here.
It can be done as a oneliner:
fink install imagemagic perlmagick-pm581
(Though, of course, installing Fink is a separate step :-)
> 1. Install the Darwin port of ImageMagick.
I guess so; I know almost nothing about the Darwinports project. (I seem
to remember rumors about them replacing system commands like make & gcc,
so I was scared off from using it, but that may not actually be true.)
> So with that being said, I guess the next question would be about the Darwin
> port. How is that an advantage over fink (et al)? I know of darwin but don't
> know anything about it. And finally, which would be the probable best route to
> take -- fink or darwin?
Darwin is the kernel & base operating system for OSX -- if you're using
Perl on a Mac, you're using Darwin. Darwinports, on the other hand, is a
project that uses BSD tools to port Unix software to OSX, just as the
Fink project uses Debian Linux tools to port the same software.
I say use Fink, but it's subjective -- others will have perfectly valid
reasons for preferring Darwinports. I just happen to know & use Debian
far more often than I've ever used *BSD, so I'm more comfortable working
with that set of tools (apt-get, dpkg, etc). YMMV.
In any case, stop agonizing over it, pick one -- you can't really go
wrong either way -- and install the software you want & get going.
You're getting hung up on the least interesting part of programming! :-)
--
Chris Devers
