Re: [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 11/14/2014 04:56 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:03 AM, billn wrote:
> > BABL has been on the drawing board since 2008? 6 years and still not a no go for
> > a stable Gimp 2.10 release. Changing Gimp license may be faster than waiting
> > another 3-5 years for a stable BABL so Gimp can use better open source tools.
>
> Are you suggesting that relicensing babl would somehow magically right
> all wrongs? :) How?

I *think* Bill N might think that forking babl would mean that GIMP 
development could switch to a "release early and often" approach to 
future development. I think that's the difference between OpenOffice and 
LibreOffice that he's pointed to.

People who don't make a habit of reading the babl/GEGL/GIMP git logs on 
a regular basis might not realize what a huge amount of coding effort 
has gone into the conversion to a geglified GIMP. It's not a matter of 
incremental improvements.

Elle