Re: ImageMagick and Lua

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

I would also be very intersted in this.
One suggestion tho:
It might be better to do a binding to GraficsMagick, as that is a branch 
of ImageMagick that is esp. meant to provide stable API interfaces.
QUOTE:

> In November, 2002, the GraphicsMagick project was formed as a branch 
> from ImageMagick 5.5.2. The project was formed in order to develop a 
> more "stable" form of ImageMagick which is suitable to be use as a 
> base for other open source (and proprietary) applications. It was 
> perceived that ImageMagick provided tremendous value, but also proved 
> to be difficult to rely on as a stable application component since the 
> ImageMagick interfaces often changed between releases, and there was 
> no concept of shared library ABI stability. GraphicsMagick intends to 
> resolve these issues while providing an appealing development 
> environment to attract the best available developers.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/mission.html

ImageMagick is known to be very much a 'moving target' in sense of API...

just my 2c

-Martin


Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> > Does anybody plan to make ImageMagick binding for Lua?
> > I know, it seems to be a huge work.... I'll take part.
> >    
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> That would be very tool. I'm willing to help.
>
> Another nice project is to bind Lua to GIMP, but I don't know how large the
> job would be. Perhaps Adam Moss (adam at gimp.org) knows?
> --lhf
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