[TYPO3-project-4-3] INSTALL.txt

[Martin Kutschker]

Ingo Renner schrieb:
> Michael Stucki wrote:
> 
> 
>>> The question is: do you think we should ~recommend~ people install
>>> ImageMagick version 4.29 in our INSTALL.txt?
>>
>> No!
>>
>>> If the answer is "no", we have nothing to argue about :) Right now
>>> INSTALL.txt ~recommends~ version 6, which is the current stable
>>> version. We do not ~require~ it, we ~recommend~ it. I am sure no one
>>> would want to ~recommend~ such an old version as 4.29 :) But people
>>> are free to use 4.29 if they want. No problems at all! It is just
>>> not a point for INSTALL.txt.
>>
>> A long time ago I changed all places where IM was recommended and
>> replaced it with GraphicsMagick. So currently I would say we should
>> always focus on recommending GM and offer IM6 only as a fallback.
>>
>> IM4 may still be supported, but for security reasons that should not be
>> mentioned at all!
> 
> full ack and to make it short:
> 
> recommend: GM
> allow: IM6 (and IM4 for backwards compatibility, but don't tell anyone
> that IM4 is still supportet because of the security issues with IM4)

If we raised the minimum version to 5 we can get rid of the stupid CLI
argument swaps. They are most annoying and confusing and make it harder
to pass additional arguments to imagemagick (using an XCLASS).

Masi