[TYPO3-dev] PHP's extension "imagick" not used in TYPO3 CMS

[Michael Schams]

Hi devs!

I always wondered, why TYPO3 CMS does not use PHP's native extension
"imagick" [1] to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API, but
executes ImageMagick's binaries from the operating system instead.

The only two reasons I could think of is, 1) not every server setup has
this PECL extension installed (by default), and 2) lack of resources to
implement this :-)

Out of curiosity: is this the only reason? Are there any performance
benefits using the Imagick class in PHP? What you think about PHP's
"imagick" in general?

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/book.imagick.php


Cheers
Michael