[Typo3-debian] Old Libs are best for typo3?

[Marc Daniel Haunschild]

Hi,

currently I am in contact with an internet agengy designing typo3
websites. They send me the following mail and I wonder whether they are
right in saying that the ancient libraries are best for the typo3
installation.

What do you mean? Are the newer versions no good for Typo3 or is this
company not able to properly install typo3 with recent libraries?

Here comes the mail (I translated the mail for you):



Dear Mr. Haunschild,

we took a look upon the installation and found out, that the required
libraries for Imagesupport are not installed.

The current status of the installation is:

ImageMagick enabled: 1
ImageMagick path: /www/smexec/ (5.5.2)
ImageMagick path/LZW: ()
Version 5 flag: 1

GDLib enabled: 1
GDLib using PNG: 1
GDLib 2 enabled: 1
IM5 effects enabled: -1 (Blurring/Sharpening with IM 5+)
Freetype DPI: 96 (Should be 96 for Freetype 2)
Mask invert: 1 (Should be set for some IM versions approx. 5.4+)


TYPO3 requires miscellaneous server software which is absolutly
necessary and can only be installed with root access. Please refer to
the optimal configuration on this site:

http://www.typo3-installer.de/index.php?id=682
important are the following package versions:

- FreeType 1.3.1
- GD 1.8.3 patched for GIF (GIF Write Support)
- ImageMagick 4.2.9

These packages have to be available at the stated versions. More recent
packages would lead to a sincere loss of quality regarding the graphics
generation of Typo3 and partly to a poorer performance. On the website
mentioned above there are the official Typo3- install scripts, which you
can consider, if necessary.

If the libraries are not installed the website's migration, which uses
the image functions heavily, cannot be accomplished the the wanted
success.

sincerely yours