On Saturday 23 July 2016 09:47:38 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 23 Jul 2016 at 06:45:35 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 23 July 2016 05:01:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 July 2016 02:36:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Very frustrating that > > > > apparently no one on this list is enough smarter about this that > > > > they can assist me. > > > > > > Is there a GIMP list, and have you tried it?? > > > > You are responding to a cross-post that I made to the debian list in > > the odd chance that in my flailing about, my cane may come in > > contact with a skull that can do something about gimp because the > > gimp docs distributed for wheezy are so old and out of date they > > won't run in the context mode. My way of perhaps getting a packagers > > attention to just how worthless it is to distribute a gimp that has > > had hundreds of bug fixes since 2.8.2, its now up to 2.8.19, and > > shipping 2.8.2 along with the docs for 2.6.1! > > The "totally broken tool" is part of the previous stable Debian > distribution called wheezy. It caused many to throw themselves under > the train (the one without a conductor) when they saw how much > worthless software was being distributed. In fact it makes you > wonder how anybody got any work done with computers at all, with > systems so outdated and containing so many bugs. > > And when they got stuck, they even had to open a book to get help, > or use this new-fangled tool called AltaVista on the interweb to > find odd scraps of information like HOWTOs and READMEs. Why didn't > they come to corporate seminars like everyone else. There were always > plenty of COBOL programmers to take questions, and mail you an answer > within a week or two. Oh, dress code, you say. Well, you could write > to the Computer Weekly letters column. Oh, non-disclosure, you say... > > C'mon Gene, you should know the score by now. > Unstable, or testing → frozen → stable → oldstable. Pick your poison. > > Cheers, > David.
My point David, is that wheezy, aka old stable, everything should Just Work(TM) even if it is not the bleeding edge, it should work as advertised, and this is a very poor example of that. Now to unpack the 2.8.2 docs I just downloaded and put them in place. That might help a whole bunch. We'll see shortly. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
