On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 10:30:57PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:57:52PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
I've been asked if you guys have any development patches to support ImageMagick-7 ? But maybe I should just ask if you have any plans to eventually support the newer version ?
If there are patches, they'd be in launchpad. I haven't heard mention of anything. I'd ask suv on IRC, she has a knack for knowing where to find anything and everything.
Offhand it sounds sensible for us to support the newer version.
Thanks. At the moment I don't think any major distro has moved to IM7 so I suspect most people will regard this as a low priority.
For the moment, I suspect the answer is no - and after looking at the code I wouldn't achieve anything in a month of sundays. So, for my own purposes I have a cunning plan : sed the Makefile in inkscape to add '6' to all the pkgconfig filenames, and then sed all users (inkscape, possibly some others) to add the 6 to the names. Dunno if I'll manage it, but it looks possible.
Who provides the pkgconfig files? ImageMagick? Would it make sense to ask them to add the -6?
Bryce
Yeah, probably. For the moment I'm attempting a rough hack, but if it works I'll then need to look at trying to get a cleaner version and go to their forums.
Cheers
ĸen