[Koha-devel] [Koha] ImageMagick

[Chris Nighswonger]

Hi all,

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:41 AM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> [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


I've opened bug 2404 for this (
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2404) and am looking
into switching to GD.pm for image manipulation in Koha

Kind Regards,

-- 
Chris Nighswonger

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