Re: [ITP] ImageMagick

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Igor,

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
>
> > I would like to contribute and maintain ImageMagick:
> >
> >     http://www.imagemagick.org/
> >
> > ImageMagick 5.5.7 is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered
> > under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many
> > image formats (over 89 major formats) including popular formats like
> > TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF.
>
>
> This has my (superfluous, as it's gathered the required three already)
> vote.

Cool, thanks.

> > ***Reviewer's Caveat***: ImageMagick depends on just about every library
> > we have :)  I have not created a list of proper dependencies in the
> > setup.hint file below, nor have I done so for the Cygwin-specific
> > README.  This is not difficult to do, but it is time-consuming and I
> > would like to get to bed; I will create this list later.  Or, I would
> > appreciate it very much if someone else ran 'find -name "*.exe" | xargs
> > cygcheck' and created a list of required packages for me.
>
>
> Someone with a full Cygwin install could run
>
> find . -name '*.exe' | xargs cygcheck | sed -e '/\.exe/d' -e 's,\\,/,g' | sort -bu | xargs -n1 cygpath -u | xargs cygcheck -f
>
> from the .inst directory, which would get the list of library packages the
> DLLs reside in.  It's a short step from there to the setup.hint dependence
> list (I plan to use a similar command eventually in the automatic ITP
> check script).

Great!  That command soup contains just the extra bit of magic that I 
was looking for to make this a slightly more automated process.

Thanks,

Harold