rmagick dependency

[alxx]

Any chance you could fork this project to use a more lightweight library than imagemagick via rmagick? It's just that imagemagick and libmagickwand-dev are a thousand times bigger than this actual gem. Lots of precious storage for what might perhaps be achieved using simpler packages. I don't need a million fonts and ghostscript and tiff support and exif and the whole of libcairo2 and and and...

I'd even take a version that's fed "hardcoded" bitmaps which I would pre-produce separately...

[alxx]

One year later... still no chance? Rmagick adds over 200 mb on a Raspberry Pi, including the whole of Python 3 and lots of others. All for a few pixels on an OLED screen...

[zeiv]

Hi @alxx, are you able to fork this and try removing the rmagick dependency from the gemspec? I suspect this gem will still work without the hard dependency, and then if you want to use the image feature you just manually install rmagick. I will happily take a PR if that works out. If you're not comfortable with that though I can test it out over the weekend

[zeiv]

Oh, perhaps I misunderstood your first message, you're still interested in image support but without the large rmagick dependency suite, is that correct?

[alxx]

Hi @zeiv , you're right, image support is great but adding Python and 200 mb of extra stuff only so I can display a logo seems a bit much... Surely there's a thinner alternative to imagemagick?