So I tried to install ImageMagick...

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• phongtt Guru

  November 2013

  That looks horrible )
  
  I can't answer your question above. But there seems to be a binary for Mac, have you tried? http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php
  
  What are you using ImageMagick for?

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• OZApps Guru

  November 2013

  Why aren't all those clever people able to think about easy and intuitive ways to install and use all of the tools that they create, that makes me crazy.
  

  While I agree with you, open source tools unfortunately are that way and the worst part is that the *clever people* create yet another distribution tool and language rather than enhance or keep the ones that already exist.
  
  One of the main reasons for that is many of the Open Source developers use Unix and they are used to getting the libraries that they need, on more mature and end user systems like Windows and Macs, these libraries are not easily added, that is where they create a similar environment to what they have on the Unix box, e.g. Cygwin for windows.
  
  Yes, it is frustrating to have 5 versions of python and perl just so that the utility that prints hello world could work, these versions do not clash like windows 'DLL hell' but many a times confuse other programs that rely on a specific version of these libraries. So App A requires Python 2.4, App B requires 2.6 and App C requires 3.0, then after a while App B would complain that it cannot find ver 2.6, etc, etc.
  
  After seeing how half the apps dump their overheads onto the HDD, sometimes allowing the additional files to be installed into /bin might seem like a good compromise, if you are game enough.

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• Mells Guru

  November 2013 edited November 2013

  @phongtt

  But there seems to be a binary for Mac, have you tried?

  They suggested that doing it through the Macports is the best way to install
  Now it's too late I'm afraid.

  What are you using ImageMagick for?

  I wanted a way to split a set of images into several images ... 9x9 grid, 16x16grid.
  I didn't find how to do it with Pixelmator/Gimp/Automator through a script and it seems everywhere people were talking about ImageMagick.
  
  So everything is installed, took 1Go+, I have no idea what was installed and where, and how to uninstall it.
  
  @OZApps

  open source tools unfortunately are that way

  that's a shame because that makes whatever they do far less accessible.
  A waste of talent.
  And I'm even not talking about the docs

  create yet another distribution tool and language rather than enhance or keep the ones that already exist.

  Most wouldn't admit, but that's also an ego matter.

  After seeing how half the apps dump their overheads onto the HDD, sometimes allowing the additional files to be installed into /bin might seem like a good compromise, if you are game enough.

  I wish I could understand what you just said.
  
  How would you do to uninstall everything that was installed without breaking the system?
  This killed my productivity today, and my machine is cluttered with all that stuff.
  
  To clarify I'm really frustrated but I'm indeed very grateful that some of those useful are made available to all, for free, by devs.
  I'm frustrated *because* those tools are great and have so much potential.
  

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• phongtt Guru

  November 2013

  Found this (though not sure if it works and up-to-date): http://cactuslab.com/imagemagick/

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• OZApps Guru

  November 2013

  After seeing how half the apps dump their overheads onto the HDD, sometimes allowing the additional files to be installed into /bin might seem like a good compromise, if you are game enough.

  I wish I could understand what you just said.
  
  How would you do to uninstall everything that was installed without breaking the system?
  This killed my productivity today, and my machine is cluttered with all that stuff.
  

  Let me try with < rant = OFF >
  There are plenty of apps that install or dump huge files on the HDD. Even iTunes keeps downloading all the apps to the HDD even if you don't what them to. Plus some others bundle the entire libraries and frameworks (statically linked) than dynamically linked. Static could be a standalone but rather large Exe, where as the dynamic would be small but depends on the libraries being present on the system.
  
  So in that scenario, since there already is a lot of stuff being dumped onto the system that you are hardly aware of, a few more KB's or MB's of files that go to your /bin directory and could be useful for command-line utilities would not make a dent either. So it could be a good compromise, if you are game enough< / rant = OFF >
  
  Hope it was a bit clearer than before.

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