The first Bad Idea reason I imagine is if some port(s) that depend on ImageMagick don't play nice with the latest version, to the point where having them work is preferable to having ImageMagick be current.
A counter-argument would be HEIF support (which a quick google suggests was added in ImageMagick 7.0.7-22). For a number of ports, there is the ability to have multiple versions installed at once; or rather, separate ports for different versions, using distinct pathnames, and often a way to select which is the default. Depending on difficulty, I'd wonder if that would be an option, absent a cleaner solution. > On Jan 26, 2021, at 04:00, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> For example, ImageMagick is at 7.0.10 in brew, but still at 6.9.11 in ports. > > For years now people have requested a 7.x version of this in MacPorts...Ryan > could probably update it in less than 5 minutes. > > But there is some reason I never bothered to read through why that is a Bad > Idea. > > Doesn't stop the monthly requests since as long as I've been around, though :) > > K
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