[TYPO3-dev] deprecation log

[Robert Wildling]

Thanks for your response!
Steffen Gerbert was quicker than me filing the big report... Thanks, 
Steffen!

Have a nice weekend!

> Hi,
>
> On 5-11-2011 10:45, Robert Wildling wrote:
>> The option $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['GFX']['im_version_5'] is not set,
>> ImageMagic 4 is assumed. This is deprecated since TYPO3 4.5, support
>> will be removed in TYPO3 4.6. Make sure to upgrade to ImageMagick
>> version 6 or GraphichsMagick.
>>
>> I don't quite get it: when IM is turned off, TYPO3 still assumes that
>> there is an IM available? So many image-related computational tasks will
>> nevertheless perform? Doesn't that lead to needless performance overhead?
>
> I just looked in the code and it's just that a bunch of checks are done
> upon initializing the graphics routines. Some of them should perhaps not
> be done if IM is turned off.
>
> But even if IM is turned off some image related functionality is still
> active (the stuff which can be done with GD-library in PHP).
>
> Can you file a bug report at [1]?
>
> [1] http://forge.typo3.org/projects/typo3v4-core/
>