Re: Desolate Condition ==> ImageMagick 7.x requests

2021-01-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 26, 2021, at 11:50, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > A counter-argument would be HEIF support (which a quick google suggests was > added in ImageMagick 7.0.7-22). HEIF/HEIC support was added to the MacPorts ImageMagick (6) port in December 2019.

Re: Desolate Condition ==> ImageMagick 7.x requests

2021-01-26 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
It looks like https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51310 covers quite a bit of discussion starting five years ago and as recent as three weeks. Someone has a private ImageMagick-7 port that people can use locally, if they wish (bottom comment on ticket).

Re: Desolate Condition ==> ImageMagick 7.x requests

2021-01-26 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
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

Re: Desolate Condition ==> ImageMagick 7.x requests

2021-01-26 Thread Ken Cunningham
> 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.