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On Monday 30 July 2012 08:51:45 jfrazierjr nc rr com wrote: > ---- shyam megha <shyamnguitar gmail com> wrote: > > Want to use GIMP for map publishing.Please help me with the links of > > source > > code download. > > > > > > 1. First is procedure for compiling. > > > > 2. Second is customization procedure for reducing menu structure. > > > > 3. Also tell me how can change the logo. > > I have to laugh at this. Your first question(not numbered.. ie links of > source code) is already answered and at least to my reading clearly > available on the GIMP website. Your second question(item number 1, which > at least for linux is also answered) indicates to me that you are not > likely not a programmer. > > Quite frankly, my suggestion to you is you need to *HIRE a competent > programmer.. PERIOD...EXCLAMATION POINT*. While compiling is not hard(on > Linux anyway), it is a quite tedious process to make sure your build > environment is set up correctly and then you likely have to compile a > number of dependencies prior to actually getting to compile GIMP. > machines. If you happen to be using Windows, quite honestly, you will > spend FAR more time and aggravation just getting your machine set up to do > a compile than you would to do the compile itself. Next,the biggest issue > is not so much compiling, but compiling it is such a way as to make it > re-distributable to other machines. > > As for items 2 and 3, well... the information is documented in the source > code. Once you obtain a programmer to do the work, he can likely figure > out the answer to these two items within an hour or so of time, but if not, > he can always either a) subscribe to the developers list or b) check out > the IRC channel to answer the question. > > What your asking for is like asking a doctor to tell gas station clerk over > an email how to do Brain Surgery. While anyone can quickly learn the > beginning steps(ie, save the area of the head, cut skin flap and folder > back, carefully cut a section of skull, remove skull section, cut out > tumor, stop bleeding, replace skull section, sew/stable skin back), the > hard part is making sure that your finished product works(ie, the guys > brain actually functions and he is not a vegetable, lost motor function in > parts of his body, lost cognitive functioning). > > LOL That's funny! Thanks for the laugh. ;D -- Fortune cookie for Monday, July 30, 2012:
"Just think of a computer as hardware you can program." -- Nigel de la Tierre
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