Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP release: 2.8.10 request, OS X

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

Hi Sven,

Have been away for the Thanksgiving holidays.:)

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 4:59 AM, scl <scl gplus gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> today there was [bugreport] about outdated builds for OSX.
>
> One reason for not being able to provide an official GIMP 2.8.8.
> on OS X build were serious issues on OS X Mavericks, for instance
> the [showstopper in the Text tool]. These have been solved in
> the meantime (thanks especially to Simone Karin Lehmann, Michael
> Natterer and Daniel Sabo).
>
> Therefore I think we should bring out GIMP 2.8.10 soon,
> including an official OS X build (preferably also for some older
> OS X versions). As far as I know Claytons build is at the ready.
> All we need is a 2.8.10 bump, don't we?
>
> This situation shows us another weakness again:
> there are at least four people working on an OS X release:
> Clayton Walker, Simone Karin Lehmann, Partha Bagchi and
> David Evans (Macports), not to mention the (still active?) maintainer
> of the outdated Fink build and the various people building GIMP
> on their own Macs. All of them do it in their rare spare time.
> All of them struggle alone with the special build issues of GIMP
> on OS X, its dependencies and the API incompatibilities between the
> various OS X versions.
> Can you guys and girls please find a way to work together?
> What makes it so hard to speak to another at the mailing list or IRC
> and unite your forces? Come on, we don't bite ;-)
Thanks for mentioning me. :)

I am happy to collaborate with anyone on my builds. Note that I build Gimp
and all dependencies from scratch using OSX gcc version 4.2.1; that is, I
build gtk+, glib, pango, cairo etc. etc. etc. and then I build Gimp. I also
include plugins that I believe are useful to photographers, well at least
useful to me.

Finally, it's not really feasible for me to come to IRC and hence I loose
out on some of those discussion.

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sven
Thanks again,
Partha

> [bugreport]:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715094
>
> [showstopper in the Text tool]:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711281
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