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Oh, this is scary. Drupal and Wordpress rely on Imagemagik. The amounts to a huge amount of the internet as a whole.
by ArtDev 10y ago
Oh, this is scary. Drupal and Wordpress rely on Imagemagik. The amounts to a huge amount of the internet as a whole.
- unlinker 10y agoWhat doesn't? Imagemagick, for me, is the one stop shop for all kind of image filters, resizing, recoding, etc
- jandrese 10y agoIt's weird. I had to do commandline image manipulation in big batches several years ago. There were two options, netpbm and ImageMagick. I ended up using netpbm (and it's still my preferred solution) after ImageMagick proved to be buggy and much much slower. It always surprised me that people flocked to ImageMagick after that. I'm completely unsurprised about these bugs given the number of serious problems I ran into. Granted, that was something like 17 years ago, but these veteran projects have a tendency to hang around on life support for decades. Projects that are huge messes don't generally get cleaned up without massive outside pressure (see: openssl).
- hueving 10y ago>It always surprised me that people flocked to ImageMagick after that. It's an SEO thing. Searching "resize image" would almost always lead to ImageMagick examples that would work well enough to not require looking elsewhere. Almost every time I've used it, it's been for a few simple image operations (downsize, rotate, etc) that happen once on a user upload of a tiny site so performance wasn't a concern.
- Glyptodon 10y agoI've used GM more. For whatever reason I've had quite a few weird problems and performance issues with IM. (It's been quite a while, though.)
- eugeneionesco 10y agoNot true, both use the GD library.
- geerlingguy 10y agoTo expand on this; they both use GD by default, as it's the most widely-installed library with PHP extensions available out of the box. But both have plugins/modules that you can use to switch the library to ImageMagick very easily, and some plugins/modules would require ImageMagick for specific functionality.
- rmccue 10y agoWordPress uses ImageMagick if available, or falls back to GD (so technically GD is the minimum requirement). This does affect WP.
- ZoF 10y agoYeah a huge number of frameworks do, as well as handcoded php sites. I work at a hosting company, really hoping this PoC is more complex than is implied in the post. So few people actually patch/update their boxes with any degree of regularity.
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- plaguuuuuu 10y agoI wonder what Imgur uses
- dredmorbius 10y agoI'm aware of a (now defunct) social networking site that used this for creating various image thumbnails and previews. Wouldn't surprise me that there are others.