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Re:Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick by creshal on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:46AM (#11626843)
> 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.

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Re:Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick by Daiz on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:22AM (#11627345)
GraphicsMagick 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.
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