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

[Carmelo DrRaw <aferrero1975 gmail com>]

Hi!

> On 10 Sep 2018, at 18:28, Ell <ell_se yahoo com> wrote:
>
>
> > 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.

Excellent! The new Glib requirement is one of the reasons preventing me to provide an AppImage for the master 
branch… I need to go through the compilation of Glib from sources, and see if there are no showstoppers on 
CentOS 7.


> --
> Ell