Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] [PATCH] New package: ImageMagick

[Volker Grabsch]

Hello Martin,

Thanks for your contribution! I added the $(PKG)_UPDATE code, improved
the download URL and included it:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/adbc8fe7ca62


Martin Lambers <address@hidden> schrieb:
> - ImageMagick makes a new release every few days. I'm not sure what the
> right time for an upgrade would be. One idea would be to track the
> package version of a Linux distribution with a predictable release cycle
> (e.g. Fedora or Ubuntu), so that Mingw-cross-env uses a release that has
> seen some testing.

ImageMagick is really a bit strange in that regard. On the other
hand, that wouldn't be much of an issue if we had a tighter release
cycle, too. :-)

So let's keep it that way for now. We've just to keep in mind
that we shouldn't upgrade ImageMagick too often. It should be
sufficient to upgrade it once before each Mingw-cross-env release.

Note that I'm also planning to provide a "safe-update" that
automatically checks whether the new version of a package builds
fine, and reverts to update if it doesn't. That should make it
easier for us to get trivial updates out of the way faster, so
that we can better concentrate on the problematic ones.


Greets,
Volker

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