[TYPO3-dev] [rfc] Support for ImageMagick PHP module ?

[Peter Russ]

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Absender:   Michael Stucki
Datum:       01.02.2012 13:33:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
>> To my understanding Typo3 uses ImageMagick by execution of new processes
>> because some hosters do not have the imagick PGP Module installed.
>> However, with my current favorite hoster the opposite is true: the
>> imagick modules is present but execution of processes is not granted to
>> PHP.  I had a brief look at the code of Type3 4.6.6 and did not find any
>> support for the PHP imagick module as an alternative.
>>
>> I am wondering: If I started working on a patch to support both
>> ImageMagick as process invocations as well as PHP module would there be
>> a chance to get that included in later Typo3 releases?  Also, do you
>> know of any issues that could make this impossible to implement?  Has
>> this been decided against before?  If so, what where the reasons?
>
> I think nobody will object to this, the reason why it's not there is
> simply that nobody needed it (and I expect it to be less powerful than
> using the stock binary).
>
> So go ahead if you think it's worth it, but I honestly recommend you to
> consider changing the hoster instead (because you will not only miss
> ImageMagick but also unzip, pdftotext, etc.)
>
> - michael
>

Futher IM has a lot of problems on different OS distributions. We use 
for example GM on RH.
So supporting IM directly would force us to upgrade to an other ECMS.

Peter

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