[Typo3-linux] some rather major Typo3 problems

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi Raven,

Raven Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 20:31:54 +0200, Ingmar Schlecht wrote:
>>2. Just take the database.sql (or similair) from your typo3conf
>>directory and create the database manually via command line. Search
>>google or whatever to learn how to import a database from .sql-file into
>>mysql via shell.
>>Otherwise use phpmyadmin (see sf.net) to import the file.
> 
> 
> Okay, thank you.
You're welcome!

>>3. I want to stress, that the fact, that the old ImageMagick 4.2.9 is
>>still better than the new versions, is not Typo3's fault, but rather the
>>fault of the programmers of ImageMagick.
>
> It is however the fault of the Typo3 developer(s) to choose to stick with
> a package that is four years old, and not even compilable on many modern
> systems. 
ImageMagick 4.2.9 is in fact recommended, however 5.x works well, too on 
my system. Effort has been put into getting Typo3 to work with 5.x as 
well, which you can see at various configuration options in the Typo3 
install tool which are related to IM 5.x. However it seemed like things 
even changed within 5.x- from minor version to minor version, so it is 
really hard to support any IM version.

But better times semm to be coming:
> Another *modern* image manipulation program should be found and
> used instead. 
The next major version of Typo3 will AFAIK work without ImageMagick 
because Kasper was able to reproduce the functions which were  only 
offered by ImageMagick up to now by using only GDLib, so there will be 
no more need for ImageMagick in future.
I'm not absolutely sure about this, but have heard (and partly seen) 
about that in Splügen during the snowboard tour 2003.

BTW, Typo3 does also work well without image manipulation features!

I hope you'll soon discover all the great abilities of Typo3!

- Ingmar