[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] Rebuild of imagemagick

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:27 AM, John Ellson <ellson at opencsw.org> wrote:
> I took a look at the 64bit Imagemagick wiki page (nice job, btw).
>
> AFAICT the current state of the 64bit builds is:
>
>    imagemagick (Roger) depends on
>        graphviz (John) depends on
>            ghostscript (John) depends on
>                libcups (Dago) depends on
>                    krb5_lib (Maciej)
>
>
> Is there any status update on krb5_lib and libcups?    Should I be trying a
> ghostscript 64bit build?

A side comment:

Sometimes, it is okay to have a 64bit library with "less" features,
than no 64bit at all.

So, at any point in the chain there, you might make a choice of, "oh
well, it would be nice to have [gs/cups/krb support] some day, but for
now, I'm just going to unplug the 64bit pipeline."
(Although of course, you need to document this very strongly if you
choose this path)

What makes a good choice of choosing a cutoff point, is when the stuff
you are chopping is not used by the top level.
The idea situation being, that , when "someday" comes... since
imagemagic does not directly use krb5 or cups(?), the library upgrade
lower down, will be transparent.