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A Chassis extension for WordPress Core development.
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Should we consider adding Imagick as an extension as well? #29

Closed BronsonQuick closed 4 years ago

BronsonQuick commented 5 years ago

I know WordPress is designed to work without Imagick if it's not installed and if it is installed then it uses all the awesomeness of Imagick.

Should we consider adding chassis/imagick as a core-dev extension or should we keep it lean and document that we can add that if we need to? I don't really have an opinion either way so I'll let the majority decide.

The new WordPress Site Health page throws warnings for imagick and bcmath but hopefully the later will disappear: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47454

kadamwhite commented 5 years ago

Since it's not required for core development, I don't want to make it a hard requirement; but I'd be in favor of noting it in the README. Maybe a new "other useful extensions" heading, with a shortlist of the extensions with the most complementary benefit: imagick for speeding up images / permitting better testing of media component work, xdebug for general utility, etc.

BronsonQuick commented 5 years ago

Awesome! Great feedback Sir. Thanks for validating my thoughts! 🥰