Where to get source code for Q16 version

[feelart]

RE: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php

Hello,

I want to build from source, but in the latest the source are named as ImageMagick-6.9.0-4.tar.gz
Where is the Q16 version?

Thanks

[magick]

The default build of ImageMagick is Q16. Just download ImageMagick-6.9.0-4.tar.gz, configure, compile, and install.

[vMeson]

This is only somewhat on topic but I'm a newbie here and didn't want to barge in and create a new thread.

It seems that for the 7.x series, only the latest patchlevel source tarball is kept. Is that your intentional policy to ensure that users get all bug fixes? I ask because when building oe-core and meta-openembedded , as part of a Yocto Project build, the tarball often disappears and causes the distro build to break. Of course we try to keep up to date but sometimes the QA process for a distro can take a while. Would it be possible to keep 2 or 3 patchlevels available? Some open source projects keep all released tarballs around and put the onus on the user to update. Clearly that puts users at risk but you do have to trust in your distro maintainer. Thoughts?

[fmw42]

Best to start a new topic in the future.

See http://www.imagemagick.org/download/releases/

Only the minor version -10 is archived, to my knowledge here. But you may find archives elsewhere with every minor version.

Is that what you want?

[vMeson]

New topic next time; will do.

Your link is useful but not what I want.

We're building a distro from 100s if not 1000s of packages and we have a build recipe for each one:
http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/m ... b?h=master
Every time you guys release a new patchlevel, people's builds could break and we've got to update the recipe.
Of course many users keep a local cache of downloaded tarballs but many do not.

We'd like it if you kept:
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/rel ... 10.tar.bz2
AND
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/rel ... -9.tar.bz2
and maybe even:
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/rel ... -8.tar.bz2
around for at least for a month or so.

This would usually give us time to notice that a new version is out and update our YP recipes.
What do you think?

[vMeson]

I guess the alternative is to use the github mirror to get the old tarballs.

[vMeson]

I hear that github doesn't destroy the history, but it does regenerate the tarball from time to time with different checksum, so that's not really much better.