Animated Gifs not really supported?

[frankwiles]

The docs mention that after installing Wand, Wagtail will support animated GIFs. This does not seem to be the case any longer.

After installing Wand==0.4.2 with wagtail==1.4.3 and restarting no behavior changes. Animated GIFs are still converted to PNGs.

I took the liberty of digging into the codebase and find no mention of Wand except in the docs and a referenced to another seemingly removed setting WAGTAILIMAGES_BACKENDS

[frankwiles]

Ok so turns out this is a problem with library versions and not a bug in Wagtial, Willow, or even Wang. The system(s) in question was lacking the right imagemagick libraries!!!! Grrrr

[kurtrwall]

@frankwiles I would love some context into what you ran into. I ran into the exact same things you did. When you say systems in question, do you mean Wand?

[ghostwords]

You need to explicitly install ImageMagick. This is noted in Wand's installation instructions, but not Wagtail's.

[frankwiles]

Actually it turned out I had ImageMagick installed on my laptop, just not a new enough version. So when I saw the same behavior local as I did on the server in question, I assumed (incorrectly) it was a problem with Wagtail or maybe Wand. Upgrading and/or installing ImageMagick and libmagic did hte trick as @ghostwords mentioned.