In November, 2002, the GraphicsMagick project was formed as a branch from ImageMagick 5.5.2. The project was formed in order to develop a more "stable" form of ImageMagick which is suitable to be use as a base for other open source (and proprietary) applications. It was perceived that ImageMagick provided tremendous value, but also proved to be difficult to rely on as a stable application component since the ImageMagick interfaces often changed between releases, and there was no concept of shared library ABI stability. GraphicsMagick intends to resolve these issues while providing an appealing development environment to attract the best available developers.

esp the 'stable interfaces' part seems to be important, as I have to date been unable to install Perl's Image::Magick on my SuSE 7.2 webserver, try as hard as I did.
this looks intersting: GraphicsMagick Perl API

Note that this differs from the ImageMagick version of PerlMagick which uses the namespace Image::Magick. Any PerlMagick code written for the ImageMagick version of PerlMagick requires a global substition of Image::Magick to Graphics::Magick in order to work with the GraphicsMagick version.

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