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> That sounds bass ackwards if you ask me. A command line tool is usually a thin wrapper around a library, for a reason. It's historically grown. The tool came
by creshal 11y ago
> That sounds bass ackwards if you ask me. A command line tool is usually a thin wrapper around a library, for a reason.
It's historically grown. The tool came first, the library was tacked on later.
And yes, it's a mess. That's why the much saner GraphicsMagick was forked off it… in 2002. People just never migrated.
- Daiz 11y agoGraphicsMagick is pretty lacking in terms of features compared to ImageMagick though, even to this day. I tried using it in a project that had just slightly unconventional image processing requirements and GM just didn't have the capabilities to handle it, whereas ImageMagick did.