Re: [Gimp-developer] Getting the recognition that GIMP deserves

[Jeremy Morton <admin game-point net>]

On 10/11/2011 13:45, Alexia Death wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Jeremy Morton<admin game-point net>  wrote:
> > On 10/11/2011 12:47, Rob Antonishen wrote:
> > > The same could be said for any complex piece of software.  I would
> > > disagree that there are many "middle ground users" anymore - and they
> > > shouldn't be a a target audience.
> >
> > So take the power users then.  They might want to use a recent development
> > version at work... still worth having a professional looking product.
>
> They are NOT SUPPOSED TO do exactly that! Ever! They may want to, but
> its not a good idea from anybody's perceptive. Development versions
> may for example write incompatible or corrupt files may have features
> that will not be in the final stable release etc... Concrete sample:
> At the beginning of 2.7 cycle layer group masks were enabled. They
> sort of worked but were buggy and deemed too buggy to be fixed in this
> cycle aand thus  were disabled. Now people who used that version in
> some place they shouldn't have have files that no longer work as
> intended in current version of GIMP. No  functionality present in dev
> release is guaranteed to be there in a stable version. Arguing that we
> should use nice splashes so people could shoot themselves in the foot
> is silly.

Well if you want advanced users to use final releases, perhaps release 
them more often than once every 2 years?  ;-)

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Best regards,
Jeremy Morton (Jez)