Re: [Gimp-developer] Easy access for contributors

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:19 PM, grafxuser wrote:

> Not everybody wanting to help, is a born Linux administrator by himself to
> setup a suitable programming environment.

I've yet to hear of a skilled programmer who is not able to setup a
build environment.

> There are many Windows or Mac
> users, who'd like to help, but are helpless themselves in setting up the
> necessary environment and keeping it up to date.
> How about a pre-built developer virtual machine, created with say SUSE
> factory and downloadable from the GIMP developers page?

Sure, make it.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org