From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2009-06-03T06:44:02+09:00
Subject: Re: MagickWand for Ruby 0.1.0

Marc Heiler wrote:
> Why was MagickWand created?
> 
> I mean quite obviously you must think that MagickWand will be better 
> than the older RMagick interface, I am just curious what has motivated 
> you. I looked at the website but I did not find this information. :)

Well, I didn't think that my "motivation" would make any difference to 
people who are checking out MagickWand for Ruby. But since you 
asked...Who doesn't want a do-over? ImageMagick development is in a lull 
and that gives me time to work on a new project. I can't change the 
things I don't like about RMagick because that would break existing 
code, so I'm taking the opportunity to write an entirely new library.

Compare MagickWand for Ruby to RMagick. The things that are different in 
MagickWand are the things I don't like about RMagick. The things that 
are the same are the things I do like.

Also there are some differences that affect only me. I think the code 
for MagickWand for Ruby will be easier to maintain. The RMagick doc, 
which I maintain by hand, is a pain to keep up, so the MagickWand for 
Ruby doc is automatically generated by webgen.

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MagickWand for Ruby - http://magickwand.rubyforge.org/