From: Tim Hunter Date: 2008-05-03T07:47:21+09:00 Subject: Re: RMagick 2.3.0 David Scheffel wrote: > Thanks for the great work! You're welcome! > > However there is one thing I don't get: Sure it makes sense to just keep > support for one image library. But why did you drop support for the > faster and more reliable one, and not the other way around? I suppose you're trying to say that your opinion is that GraphicsMagick is faster and more reliable than ImageMagick. I'm sure there are many people who would agree with you, and many that would disagree with you. Personally I don't have an opinion, and I can honestly say that such considerations never entered my mind. RMagick is a hobby for me. As such I have to consider how much time and energy I want to invest in it. Maintaining a single version that supports all releases of GraphicsMagick, all releases of ImageMagick since 6.0.0 (about 40 now), and all releases of Ruby since 1.6.7 was taking more work than I cared to invest. Therefore, going forward, I decided to limit enhancements to RMagick to the RMagick 2 series, with support for just the newer releases of Ruby and ImageMagick. However, it's not the case that I dropped all support for GraphicsMagick. RMagick 1.15.13 supports all releases of GraphicsMagick, as well as older releases of ImageMagick and older releases of Ruby, although that support is bug-fixes only. This is ongoing. I downloaded the GM 1.2 beta last night, and if any changes are necessary to support 1.2, I hope to make them in a new RMagick 1.15 very soon. RMagick is a volunteer effort. If you'd like to see enhanced support for GraphicsMagick in RMagick, and you're interested in contributing your work, drop me a line. You should be reasonably familiar with C programming and either be familiar with or able to learn the Ruby and GraphicsMagick C APIs. -- RMagick: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ RMagick 2: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/rmagick2.html