[Koha-devel] [Koha] ImageMagick

[MJ Ray]

[thread moved to koha-devel]

Marcel de Rooy <M.de.Rooy at rijksmuseum.nl> wrote:
> While doing that, I had a problem installing a newer version of
> ImageMagick (and PerlMagick). Koha needs 6.2.

While installing one system recently, installing perlmagick pulled 109
other packages onto the system.  Nearly all of the other koha
dependencies were already installed, so didn't contribute to the 109.
That's far too large a dependency tree for one perl module - 109 more
bits we'd need to make sure work and have compatible versions.  As
Marcel de Rooy's message on the main koha list suggests, there may be
also ongoing version-compatibility problems in ImageMagick itself.  Is
there any problem in principle in moving to something lighter, like a
libgd-based solution?

I suggest that this is a big enough bugfix to be introduced during 3.0

Comments?
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