Re: [Ids-devel] IDS and iPhoto - works great

[Jeff M. <jef...@vi...>]

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 03:00, Arshad Tayyeb wrote:
> Is there any future for ids? 

I'm one of 2 people who has actual CVS write access. I haven't been able
to donate much time to the project because of my twin boys. They have
basically taken all of my free time! For some silly reason I thought I'd
have more time as they got older (1 year in a couple weeks).

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> The one big obstacle to getting ids to work on a Mac.... it had nothing 
> to do with IDS.  But getting ImageMagick and PerlMagick to work on the 
> mac took me a couple of days the first time, and another 3 days to redo 
> it with Panther (10.3).  It was a royal PITA.   Hopefully fink will 
> take care of that when they update their ImageMagick package.
> 

I'd personally like to get rid of ImageMagick and use other libraries.
There is an alternative mostly in Perl with the only dependencies being
the jpeg libraries. Can't recall the name.

I'd also like to have the Ids package contain all the needed CPAN
modules and build them at install time within the users directory space
(some of the work is all ready present in CVS). I currently do this at
work. It helps in those situations when newer modules actually break
stuff.

Anyway, the way to get write access is to send lots of patches. That's
what I did and Ashely gave me access. Shortly after I became a father!