On Tuesday 02 December 2008 03.41.51 Okan Demirmen wrote: > seems i've missed a bit here while away... > > 2 things: > > koffice 1.6 branch does not support newer GraphicsMagick versions. > > i still don't understand the no_gs thing. as kili pointed out, it > can be pinned down to removing the run dependency of ghostscript, but > why? for example, GraphicsMagick supports RAW images, hence a build > dependency on dcraw - should we force the user to read the output of > gm error messages to guess which additional package one needs to > install to get the compiled-in functionality? i'm of the opinion > 'no'. same goes with the gs binary being available if the package > has been built to support it. What are you suggesting?
> in any case, i think we should at least update to the latest 1.1.14 > release. i've kept the changes i made to make the port more like > ImageMagick; additionally, this builds the perl module and brings in > libwmf. True. > at least we don't break the current koffice3, for now. Now I really think we should go down the road you have proposed earlier: Making a 1.1.x/ dir for mainting compatibility with koffice 1.6, and a 1.3.x for the latest stable. What do you think? Daniel -- LEVAI Daniel PGP key ID = 0x4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1
