Re: No support for ImageMagick 7 in emacs-26

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:26:56 +0100
> 
> Given that ImageMagick 7 was released in April 2016, wouldn't it make
> sense to support that version in the upcoming Emacs 26.2?
> 
> AFAICS, commits 5729486951, bf1b147b55, 42ed35c68b, and 3cc42bb600 would
> have to be backported for that, which doesn't seem too intrusive.
> 
> (In fact, Gentoo has a consolidated patch for 26.1:
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/emacs-patches.git/tree/emacs/26.1/02_all_imagemagick-7.patch)

It doesn't seem entirely trivial to me.  ImageMagick caused quitea few
problems to Emacs, so at this point I can only accept patches to
support v7 on the release branch if the code used by v6.x is
completely unchanged.

Thanks.