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

Alex Heizer alex at tekdevelopment.com
Fri May 5 21:13:04 CEST 2006


Hi,

Aahh... now you can see why some of us still insist on using v4.2.9. 
It's pretty unnerving to imagine breaking 200 websites at a time by 
upgrading a lib on a server, just because they change their API with 
even minor versions.  ;)

Cheers from an IM luddite!
Alex


Kasper Skårhøj wrote:
> Hello Mr. Three-Exclamation-Mark.
> 
> I agree, the ImageMagick situation is horrible. But I was there over  
> the years and grew gray hairs over ImageMagick as it did the cameleon- 
> dance up in my face. I think most people can appreciate that we did  our 
> best, while it seems you can't. This has nothing to do with your  
> objective claims. Its your attitude dude.
> 
> Impress me and just rewrite the whole things for us.
> 
> - kasper
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 29, 2006, at 1:43 , Elias Humbolt wrote:
> 
>> I am refering to this: http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=1188
>>
>> Here a summary:
>> * Source of the imagemagick problem is not that imagemagick changed  
>> the way
>> the interpret mask files (no negation there)!
>> * What happened is that some command line arguments traded places  
>> (which makes
>> it look like mask files need to be negated).
>> * The logical solution would be to accommodate this change in the  
>> order of
>> arguments in the function that calls imagemagick (easy?)!
>> * BUT instead the T3 does negate the mask.
>> * AND it does not negate the mask in just one place - in the  function 
>> which
>> calls imagemagick - NO, it does it in every function that uses the
>> imagemagick-calling function (crazy, what a huge overhead in code and
>> processing time).
>>
>> Moreover, the 123-installer called the imagemagick-calling function  
>> directly
>> not through higher level functions like the rest of typo3.  Therefore the
>> image processing tests never reflected, what T3 was actually doing.
>> * At least that seems to be dealt with now (partly at least. I had  some
>> trouble specifying im6 for my im 6.0.6. With im5 it seems to work)
>>
>> Concluding:
>> This part of T3 is extremely messy!!!!!! It needs a clean-up!!!!  
>> NOW!!!! A
>> real one!!!!
>>
>> This is nothing worth draging on to the next version!!!! It should  
>> have been
>> dealt with in T3 4.0.0 already!!!
>>
>> Even if we have to break some backwards compatibility. There are  
>> nearly no
>> modules converted to T3 4.0.0 and the new extension management yet  
>> anyhow. We
>> just need to include a warning in the upgrading instructions! But I  
>> am pretty
>> sure, I can make this one even backward compatible!
>>
>> I am willing to do all the work, if the people in charge agree,  this 
>> needs to
>> be done!!!!
>>
>> Elias
>>
>> On Thursday 20 April 2006 08:54, Markus bertheau wrote:
>>
>>> So what are you referring to? It's interesting after all, and I'm  only
>>> a few weeks on this list now.
>>>
>>> Markus
>>>
>>> 2006/4/20, Elias Humbolt <elias at asb-online.at>:
>>>
>>>> No, I am not refering to that.
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 13:41, Michael Stucki wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Elias,
>>>>>
>>>>> to make a long story short: I assume you are referring to this bug:
>>>>> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=1188
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't remember the details but remember that Bernhard and you had
>>>>> different views about this bug. Since Bernhard has spent a huge  
>>>>> amount
>>>>> of time on the stdGraphic class (making truecolor-images  possible) I
>>>>> have left the solution open to him. And even you have confirmed  
>>>>> that it
>>>>> is a working solution (though you didn't like this solution).
>>>>>
>>>>> However, once again I would like to point out that we had six (6!!)
>>>>> preview versions where you could have had a look at this. Of  
>>>>> course it
>>>>> is easy to come back after a few months to say that nobody but  you is
>>>>> having any clue about that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please reopen the bug and discuss with Bernhard.
>>>>>
>>>>> - michael
>>>>
>>>>
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> 
> 
> - kasper
> 
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