Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp build for Windows

[pavel <pavel pamsoft cz>]

Hi Sven,

thank you for your e-mail. I'll not go back to previous paragraphs and
try to explain something here.

The idea about creating my own installer came from some forums where
I've got an impression that there is no 64bit version of Gimp for
Windows at the moment, or is unstable or buggy. Then I realized that
there is something, so I will postpone this effort.

Regarding the bugs which seem to be fixed in my build, it's perhaps more
my impression than a fact. I quickly checked few of them and could not
reproduce for example 676708, 690749, 658919, 674928 and 691227. So I
concluded that this might be because I have my own builds of the shared
libraries.

Anyway, all the issues certainly need deeper investigation. I think I
could help you with some of them. I tried to make a fix for 691169
(Japanese characters in the file name) and I have a workaround for the
problem (without the need to modify GLib, although it would deserve some
improvement). It will perhaps not be accepted because it is too much
hack, but I can try it.

So my next two questions are:

1) How can I submit/propose a patch?

2) Is there any coordinator who would assign bugs to a particular
developer? So that two or more people don't work on the same issue?

Thanks, Pavel

On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 19:30 +0100, scl wrote: 
> On 09.01.13 at 10:35 AM pavel wrote
>  > are you still looking for a Windows developer?
> Welcome to the club, Pavel ;-)
> Your lines about building efforts sound similar to my experiences and I 
> decided to support GIMP on Windows, too. Currently I'm stepping deeper 
> into Windows development for GIMP (besides other things).
> 
>  > Today I quickly went through the list of Windows related bugs and it
>  > looks like lots of them have gone.
> Hmm, that sounds new to me. Together with mainly Michael Schumacher I 
> lately checked nearly all bugs and reduced the amount of open Windows 
> bugs down to approx. 40%. The open bugs you see now are yet open to be 
> fixed. But nobody is perfect - if you see something actually obsolete, 
> then add a comment to that particular bug in Bugzilla.
> 
>  > I can create a new
>  > Windows installer using msi and also build 64bit version.
> To avoid duplicate and unnecessary work it's best to come to IRC and 
> speak with Jernej Simoncic or Michael Henning. They maintain the 
> Sourceforge build resp. the nightly builds.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Sven
> 
> 
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