Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.10.x AppImage packages

[Ell <ell_se yahoo com>]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:59:26 +0200
Carmelo DrRaw via gimp-developer-list <gimp-developer-list gnome org>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> recently I have done additional work on the GIMP AppImage packages,
> trying to improve the compatibility with various linux distributions
> and improving the building/packaging scripts.
>
> In a nutshell:
> * I have moved the build environment to CentOS 7, which is based on
> glibc 2.17
> * the whole appimage creation process now runs through a single bash
> script that can be executed inside a docker container. This means
> that the automated integration, now based on Travis CI, can be easily
> moved to any other system that supports Docker
> * the appimage packages are now built in two flavours: one “bare”
> package that only provides GIMP, and a “full-featured” package that
> also contains few popular and useful plug-ins (including G’MIC-Qt)
>
> The 2.10.7 packages are available for download from here:
> https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous
> <https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous>
>
> Running the AppImages is very simple:
> * download the package
> * make it executable via 
>       chmod u+x
> * run the package as any other Linux executable

Thanks for doing all this.  Having the latest-and-greatest code
easily available as an AppImage is really awesome :)

> A note to the developers: the current 2.10.x branch requires a quite
> recent version of Glib, but only due to the use of a single function
> in app/gui/splash.c, and only for diagnostics purposes. To circumvent
> the problem and be able to use the older Glib version available on
> CentOS 7, I am applying the following patch:
> https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch
> <https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch>
> Is that OK?

This has already been fixed in the gimp-2-10 branch (master requires a
newer GLib version).  See commit
499a8962b326823bdf12936960798f802c79f283.

--
Ell