Hi, I just found that the gimp in macports has been upgraded to 2.3.18, and 2.2.17 is completely removed. I'm just wondering, since 2.2.17 is the latest stable version, maybe it should be included in macports until 2.4 is out? We can name the port gimp2.2. Best Regards, Xin Liu
On Jul 31, 2007, at 03:59, Xin Liu wrote:
I just found that the gimp in macports has been upgraded to 2.3.18, and 2.2.17 is completely removed. I'm just wondering, since 2.2.17 is the latest stable version, maybe it should be included in macports until 2.4 is out? We can name the port gimp2.2.
The revision log [1] reads, in part: "gimp2 now syncs with (stable enough) unstable version" Do you disagree that gimp 2.3.18 is stable enough? Are you experiencing problems with it that you did not experience with 2.2.17? I'm Cc'ing the port maintainer since he will be best equipped to respond to this discussion. [1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/27319
No, I haven't installed 2.3.18 and haven't experienced any problem. I'm a light user of gimp, and as a user, I just feel safer using the stable version. Thinking there might be other casual users out there feeling the same as me, it seems to me that having 2.2.17 in macports would be helpful. Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/31/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> wrote:
On Jul 31, 2007, at 03:59, Xin Liu wrote:
I just found that the gimp in macports has been upgraded to 2.3.18, and 2.2.17 is completely removed. I'm just wondering, since 2.2.17 is the latest stable version, maybe it should be included in macports until 2.4 is out? We can name the port gimp2.2.
The revision log [1] reads, in part:
"gimp2 now syncs with (stable enough) unstable version"
Do you disagree that gimp 2.3.18 is stable enough? Are you experiencing problems with it that you did not experience with 2.2.17? I'm Cc'ing the port maintainer since he will be best equipped to respond to this discussion.
Well, I have been using the unstable branch for many months now and not only does it work very well, but it also fixes some problems present in the stable branch. Now, unstable does not necessarily mean crashy or buggy. It means that such things can (and probably will) happen, which is why I won't be upgrading gimp2 as fast as gimp-dev (gimp-dev is already at at 2.3.19). However, if anyone experiences problems with that, I'll probably revert to stable, but I did the move after users reported problems in the stable branch that I was not experiencing with 2.3.x. yves Le 07-07-31 à 05:58, Xin Liu a écrit :
No, I haven't installed 2.3.18 and haven't experienced any problem. I'm a light user of gimp, and as a user, I just feel safer using the stable version. Thinking there might be other casual users out there feeling the same as me, it seems to me that having 2.2.17 in macports would be helpful.
Best Regards,
Xin Liu
On 7/31/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> wrote:
On Jul 31, 2007, at 03:59, Xin Liu wrote:
I just found that the gimp in macports has been upgraded to 2.3.18, and 2.2.17 is completely removed. I'm just wondering, since 2.2.17 is the latest stable version, maybe it should be included in macports until 2.4 is out? We can name the port gimp2.2.
The revision log [1] reads, in part:
"gimp2 now syncs with (stable enough) unstable version"
Do you disagree that gimp 2.3.18 is stable enough? Are you experiencing problems with it that you did not experience with 2.2.17? I'm Cc'ing the port maintainer since he will be best equipped to respond to this discussion.
I just installed gimp2 and am trying it out. I've got one question: can we have a without_python variant like in gimp-2.2.17? I added such a variant and built without any problem. I also tried a few photos with my usual operations, and everything worked fine without python. I think this variant might save some disk space and compiling time for casual gimp users like me. FYI, the variant I added is: *** variant without_python conflicts python24 { depends_lib-delete port:py25-gtk configure.env-delete PYTHON=${prefix}/bin/python2.5 configure.args-append --disable-python } *** Best Regards, Xin Liu On 7/31/07, Yves de Champlain <yves@macports.org> wrote:
Well, I have been using the unstable branch for many months now and not only does it work very well, but it also fixes some problems present in the stable branch.
Now, unstable does not necessarily mean crashy or buggy. It means that such things can (and probably will) happen, which is why I won't be upgrading gimp2 as fast as gimp-dev (gimp-dev is already at at 2.3.19).
However, if anyone experiences problems with that, I'll probably revert to stable, but I did the move after users reported problems in the stable branch that I was not experiencing with 2.3.x.
yves
Commited thanks and don't hesitate if you have any more suggestions yves Le 07-07-31 à 16:34, Xin Liu a écrit :
variant without_python conflicts python24 { depends_lib-delete port:py25-gtk configure.env-delete PYTHON=${prefix}/bin/python2.5 configure.args-append --disable-python }
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