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On 2017-09-04 15:03, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 04/09/2017 21:52, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> A recent discussion on Fedora's devel list has brought to my attention >> that ImageMagick 7 would be incompatible with 6 not only wrt API/ABI but >> also wrt CLI (affecting scripts etc.). It would seem prudent to stick >> with the 6 series for the time being until the Linux distributions sort >> this out. >> >> If you concur, would you mind updating ImageMagick to the latest 6.9 >> release? It seems to be somewhat behind at the moment. > > I was not planning to move to 7.x for the time being. Probably for the best. > I will look on latest 6.9 but I had the impression they bumped > the API in anycase. Yes, but it sounds like that shouldn't require more than a customary rebuild of the few packages which use libMagick{Core,Wand}6. > It is the worst package as stability that I am aware... It's definitely among the worst. I do wonder if at least 6 will settle down ABI-wise with 7 out, but given their history, who knows. -- Yaakov
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