Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Curious about GIMP-2.10 bugs on Windows

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 05/11/2018 10:35 AM, Kevin Payne wrote:
> On 05/11/2018 09:06 AM, Elle Stone wrote:
>
> > Are some/many/most of the problems being reported for GIMP-2.10 on
> > Windows, only specific to Windows?
> >
> > Or are these bug reports by Windows users simply bugs that weren't
> > detected by various people running GIMP-2.9/GIMP-2.10-rc/GIMP-2.10 on
> > Linux?
>
> I'd suggest that one of the reasons is the relative lack of availability of executables during the 2.9 development 
> phase<https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list> - self compilation not really being an option on 
> Windows.

That would explain a lot. Though people do manage to compile GIMP on 
Windows, it's apparently not easy to do.

Partha's 2.9/2.10 builds for Windows have been available for a long time 
(https://www.partha.com/), without giving rise to nearly so many bug 
reports as the official release of 2.10. But maybe most Windows users 
don't know about Partha's builds.

Best,
Elle