Re: [Gimp-developer] List of dependencies (versions and configuration options) for GIMP on Windows

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

ok I think I got misleaded. The official Windows package maintainer is
actually Jernej, isn't it?
Anyway see below about the unpatched Windows package.

Jehan

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Jehan Pagès
> <jehan marmottard gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Michael Henning
> > > <drawoc darkrefraction com> wrote:
> > > > At the time I fixed this, Jernej's builds did not exhibit the problem
> > > > because they used an older version of fontconfig. I did not report
> > > > this upstream because it's a configuration issue, but now that I think
> > > > about it, the defaults should perhaps be changed on windows (or maybe
> > > > when cross compiling).
> > >
> > > Yes I am not sure if upstream or else, but definitely somethings
> > > should be done *somewhere*, otherwise we might have various new
> > > developers to the team (or the same ones, forgetting it happened
> > > already) scratching their head with this problem every 6 months. The
> > > simple fact that the last Windows build is broken even though you had
> > > this fixed from before this release is a sign there should be
> > > something in place for this to not happen again. :-)
> >
> > Just for information, I have now opened a report upstream:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69836
>
> The font bugs on Windows are still present in GIMP 2.8.8!
> If we use an older version of fontconfig, Drawoc has a patch all ready
> for this: build/windows/jhbuild/patches/fontconfig-fix-config-dir.patch
> Other than that, we can just use fontconfig 2.11.0 (current stable),
> or over when there will be. Fontconfig has the fix since 2.11.0.
>
> Could we make sure the same process is applied for the Windows
> nightbuilds (which use the patches in build/windows/) and the releases
> (which apparently do not)? That makes it less useful to have
> nightbuilds if we don't even provide the same in a release!
>
> And can something be done for GIMP 2.8.8? Since it has just been out,
> and that's not a change in GIMP itself, can we update the Windows
> packages? Or once it is out, we say it is too late?
> Thanks!
>
> Jehan
>
> > Jehan