Re: [Gimp-developer] WGO Transition Meeting

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Chris Moller <moller mollerware com> wrote:
> At least as of the time I left Red Hat 5 years ago, they used an RPM-based
> system just like Fedora; I'm reasonably sure they still do.
>
> The potential down-side of trying to maintain a GIMP-for-RHEL is that
> packages included in RHEL are usually a little older than the most current
> versions.

We don't maintain packages for any specific distribution. But we can
still advertize how to install these when they exist. And I would
guess Redhat has such a package for GIMP.

> While I'm here, regarding automatic distribution detection, it would be
> useful to have a fairly obvious way to show and download any GIMP release,
> regardless of what distro you're using at the moment.  I do remote
> maintenance on a dozen or so machines at different Fedora release levels,
> 32-bit and 64-bit, It would be very useful to be able to just pick which
> GIMP I need.

This is something which is coming with xdg-app. See for instance this
blog post (which actually proposes already some nightly for GIMP as a
demo):
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/10/06/nightly-devel-builds-using-xdg-app/

When such technology is stable enough, we should be able to propose
real distro-independent packages for GIMP (which are not ugly binaries
in tarball to uncompress in a dirty way without any desktop
integration).

Jehan

> --Chris Moller
>
> On 11/14/15 12:16, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> > - Isn't there repositories with GIMP in Redhat? This is one of the biggest
> > distributions, especially in corporate world, and it feels a little sad to
> > not have GIMP official support there. I would assume they use package
> > management systems similar to Fedora but with their own (stabler)
> > repositories. No?
>
>
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