Re: Bugs involving imread, imwrite, and GraphicsMagick

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Sep-2010, John Swensen wrote:

| I guess that was kindof my point.  We, as the Octave community,
| don't have much control over what the GraphicsMagick maintainers do.
| We can ask nicely and sit and wait for them to change a configure
| flag in the GraphicsMagick package builds.  On the other hand, we
| can easily ask Thomas Weber to add a "--with-magick=ImageMagick" to
| the Debian/Ubuntu package builds and have a great likelihood of it
| happening pretty quickly.  Even one of us could make a patch to the
| Debian package files so all he has to do is make it effective for
| the next package release.

If it is just a simple matter of different library/header file names
and no other code changes to enable using either GraphicsMagick or
ImageMagick, then let's do that part first.  If you have diffs (even
incomplete) at this point, send them to me and I'll do the configure
script hacking.

jwe