Re: Error in API documentation.
Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:01:20 -0500 (CDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.apis |
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On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> The software has an extremely long history dating back to 1990 or so.
> The software originated from command-line utilities which primarily
> pass strings from the user. I don't like the string arguments much
> either but "fixing" the API causes stability problems for the user.
I should mention that the C++ CPI ("Magick++) that I started
developing at the end of 1998 tried to address the "bad API" issues.
I must have been successful since the API has withstood the test of
time pretty well. Even this API includes some regrettable decisions
(by me).
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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