merging imread and imwrite

[Michael Goffioul]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 7:41 AM, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> wrote:
> OK, I looked, and while it is smaller than the Magick++ library, it
> also uses an unusual method of managing images.  I think I would much
> prefer to work with the classes provided by Magick++.  Using reference
> counted images seems much more natural to me than having a database of
> images indexed by names.
>
> Maybe the Magick++ library could be split into smaller pieces?  Or
> maybe it doesn't really matter, as even with all the dependencies it
> is just a few megabytes and memory is cheap these days (right?).

Given the common origin of ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick, I'm
alwo wondering if the code could be made compilable with one or
the other?

Michael.