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

[John Ellson]

On 06/03/2011 01:44 PM, John Ellson wrote:
> On 06/03/2011 01:35 PM, Philip Brown wrote:
>> 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.
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>
> Yes, I was thinking that it would be easy to drop the ghostscript 
> plugin from graphviz.
> (Its used to import custom node shapes in PostScript - a feature that 
> isn't used much, better to use SVG these days anyway.)
>
> It would also be easy to drop the graphviz dependency from ghostscript.

Sorry.  I meant to say: "... from ImageMagick"

>
> But, if the goal is to use ImageMagic to drive the creation of a 64bit 
> distribution, then there is less point in taking shortcuts.
>
>
> John
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