[TYPO3-dev] ImageMagick - you'll never get it right!

[Elias Humbolt]

> As an example, take a look of what Gallery 1
> (http://gallery.menalto.com) did and how the new Gallery 2 totally
> reworked the image processing, including full "out-of-the-box" support
> for every IM/GM version there is, where no user-setting is needed.

Yes, that's what I am up to! If you examine the code you will be stunned at 
how many places somebody tried to deal with the IM issue. A million places 
where no such code should be! This needs to be cleared out. And this can be 
cleared out even without risking backwards compatibility. It can even be 
automated without risking backwards compatibility!

This is no problem, because the source of the problem is so damn simple. It is 
just the way the T3 team dealt with it which is unnecessarily complicated.

I don't blame anybody here, because at the point when the problem occurred, I 
imagine everything just started as a quick fix and it was especially 
difficult to figure out what caused the problem in the first place.

It's just, after so many versions it is time to get rid of this first try and 
get something better in place.

I am willing to do the work necessary. I would even go so far to test my code 
with all extensions that use any Imagemagick functions to assure backwards 
compatibility.

Elias