Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP branched: new stable branch gimp-2-10

[Kristian Rietveld <kris loopnest org>]

> On 22 May 2018, at 16:01, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com> wrote:
>
> There is another issue which was raised these days by GTK+ developers who
> discussed GIMP port: apparently GTK+3.99 (to become GTK+4) has currently no
> macOS backend! Basically that means we'd lose GIMP on macOS. And worse,
> they have (nearly or none at all?) no developers working on this, so it's
> not even sure when or if it will come.

The macOS backend been fully removed in 3.99??


> Actually even GTK+3 macOS port is bad but at least there is something. The
> Windows backend on GTK+3 is bad too (still according to GTK+ devs) but is
> more tested than Windows backend.

I worked on the GTK+3 macOS port in the early beginning of GTK+3. I don’t know how much work went into it 
after that, I did get the impression that it got commits and maintenance regularly.

I wasn’t really looking forward to the GTK+3 port because of this and the fact that the entire backend 
appears to have been removed doesn’t really make it better :(  On the other hand, it should probably be much 
easier to port GTK+3/4 to macOS compared to GTK+2.



regards,

-kris.