On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Laurențiu Păncescu wrote:
It seems unlikely that Debian can afford to displace the existing 8-bit
package since it would break existing dependencies. A parallel
installable GraphicsMagick Q16 package (with renamed shared libraries
and headers path) seems like the best path forward. Unfortunately, the
GraphicsMagick build does not currently support alternate names for the
shared libraries and headers path.
Is it a lot of work to implement this? I can volunteer some help, if the
Debian maintainer would go along and generate two binary packages. I think
most (all?) binary-based Linux distributions only include 8-bit
GraphicsMagick, and it's a pity: the difference in quality is quite large.
I think that this is primarily a Makefile issue, with a tiny impact to
the configure script. I will look into if Automake allows this to be
a trivial task or if it becomes a big job. Debian could likely
accomplish it via a simple patch or sed script to adjust the Makefile
prior to configure.
Besides quantum sample size, people might want to install versions
with different features or CPU-optimizations, and the ability to
install multiple builds in parallel would be useful for this.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
