From: Ben A. <bpa...@ma...> - 2008-09-30 17:14:41
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On Tuesday, September 30, 2008, at 12:58PM, "Alexander Hansen" <ale...@gm...> wrote: > >On Sep 30, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Ben Abbott wrote: > >> >> On Tuesday, September 30, 2008, at 09:54AM, "Alexander Hansen" <ale...@gm... >> > wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Ben Abbott wrote: >>> >>>> Sven Schwyn <echo60 <at> delirium.ch> writes: >>>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, -sven >>>> >>>> Is there any continued effort on this. I'm interested in a Fink >>>> package for >>>> graphicsmagick to be used as a dependency for Octave. >>>> >>>> If no one is going to continue to work on a package, I can take a >>>> look, >>>> but would greatly appreciate it if I don't have to start from >>>> scratch. >>>> >>>> Ben >>>> >>> >>> Is there any reason imagemagick wouldn't work for this? >>> >> >> I'm not familiar with either, but at present graphicsmagick is a >> dependency for a fully functional Octave. >> >> Any thought on how much effort would be needed to make such a change? >> >> Ben >> >> >Graphicsmagick is a fork of imagemagick. My understanding is that >should build OK. Is this for the current Octave release? > Apparently graphicsmagick was added as a optional dependency in July of this year. Although it was part of octave-forge for quite some time prior to that. Regarding new dependencies, fltk-aqua has some problem with Octave's development sources. Any chance you/someone can get the x11 variant updated. I tried the maintainer some months ago, but didn't get a reply. Ben |