[ANN] Smagick

Kevin Driedger linuxbox+nabble at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 02:05:33 UTC 2007


I've tried it on Windows and stepped through the code a bit and it seems that
you are assuming that the names of the binaries will be without extensions
but on Windows they add .exe to the end.  I'll see if I can change that.

]{evin


stefan.reichhart at gmx.ch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks (to all) for the nice feedbacks !
> 
> request by Damien:
> "Smagick 0.1" is now available as Package Universe ;)
> 
> interfacing:
> Right now the "IO" between "Smagick" and "Image Magic" via  
> "OSProcess" is done using "OSProcessIO". That is an intermediate  
> layer that composes the commands for a model (=Smagick) and returns  
> the parsed output (if there is any) and the process of an external  
> application (=Image Magick) back to it. "OSProcessIO" is using a file- 
> pipe for this ... yet very primitive.
> 
> I know that "Smagick" works well on Unix, Linux and MacOSX - tested  
> and heavily used. I don't know whether it runs on Windows. Maybe  
> someone can try it ? - I don't use Windows anymore ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Stef
> 
> 
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
>>> "Smagick" is a small high level interface to control "Image Magick"
>>> from within a Smalltalk environment, eg. Squeak. The purpose of this
>>> package is to provide high performance image manipulations without
>>> the need to know all the low level details of image processing.
>>
>> Neat!!
>>
>> There is a ton of stuff available on our machines outside of Squeak.
>> There are several ways to access such things, and Smagick's approach
>> is to use OSProcess.
>>
>> Can you comment on how the interfacing works?  Does Image Magick have
>> a mode that lets you talk to it over a pipe, or does it have a rich
>> set of command-line options that Smagick can use, or what?
>>
>> Also, does anyone have an idea if Smagick works in Windows, possibly
>> with Cygwin?  How about OS/X ?
>>
>>
>> Lex
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 

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