[Xastir] UI-view Maps not working

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:51:13AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>    Awesome!! That did it! graphicksmagick fixed the problem and the maps are
>    showing.

Hooray!

Chalk up another black mark on the IM side.

Years ago the developers talked about actually removing the IM support in 
Xastir and requiring GM instead.  At that time, there were still Linux
distros that could not have both IM and GM installed simultaneously, and
some users needed IM as a dependency for other programs.  So the discussion
ended there.

Perhaps it's time to have that discussion again.  IM is becoming a source of
more problems with every release.  Chasing down those incompatibilities was
a source of "ifdef bloat" for several years as we tried to keep compatible
with multiple versions of IM.  And their latest releases all seem to require
major changes in Xastir's raster rendering code to work --- and that 
ain't going to happen given the availability of developer time (unless
we have some volunteers from the user community).

>    On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Tom Russo <[1]russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
>      On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:34:51AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
>      collision of the <[2]electricity440 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>      >** ** Osm_tiled_mapnik loads and it shows that it downloads the tiles
>      on the
>      >** ** bottom left, but I don't see anything on the screen other than
>      worldhi. Is
>      >** ** there a specific location/zoom that I need to go to? I zoomed in
>      a lot
>      >** ** too, and there is no difference, worldhi is the only imagery that
>      I see.
> 
>      I'm guessing that you also got the "colorspace != RGB" error on the
>      console
>      even on this map.
> 
>      I suspect you have a problem with your ImageMagick install.** See my
>      last
>      email about that.
> 
>      The solution to this *might* be to rebuild ImageMagick with different
>      options,
>      but I don't know what those would be.** A better solution would be to
>      install
>      GraphicsMagick instead.
> 
>      GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick that puts stability of API very
>      much
>      higher on the priority list than ImageMagick does --- IM tends to break
>      things
>      randomly and without any regard to backwards compatibility.** They are
>      more
>      bleeding edge as far as image processing algorithms and design, but for
>      our purposes stability is more valuable.
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