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

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