On 6/17/24 02:39, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 16/06/2024 18:24, Aoife Moloney wrote:
This release of Fedora Linux ships version 3 of the GNU Image
Manipulation Program, with many new features and improved user
experience. The package is called <code>gimp3</code>, the old version
will still be available under the old name, <code>gimp</code> for
users who need it for existing projects.
+1 to the proposal, but -1 to the quoted statement.
GIMP 3 should go to the gimp package and the gimp2 legacy
compatibility package should be introduced.
Vitaly got it right---it should be a major exception to introduce
versioned software naming, i.e. only when there are major system-level
implications, like for Python2->3 transition. I do appreciate that
people may have gimp application-level workflows [1] but Fedora should
not be expected to fix them, given the upstream policy of releasing the
new GIMP.
Speaking of gimp2, it looks like the GIMP upstream is planning to
publish a gimp 2.10.x stable branch
https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/ but with a low priority.
[1] obligatory XKCD reference: https://m.xkcd.com/1172/
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