VipsScaler/status

2011-12-01
Tim Starling and Antoine Musso reviewed the VipsScaler extension, written by Bryan Tong Minh to use VIPS as an alternative, and possible replacement, for ImageMagick as image thumbnailing system. Bryan and Antoine also wrote a comparison tool, [//test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:VipsTest enabled on the test2 wiki], to test both systems. The initial deployment is planned to be limited to images that would give an error with ImageMagick (for instance large PNG files).