On Monday 20 July 2009 03:41:14 pm Martin Nordholts wrote: > On 07/20/2009 09:35 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > On Sunday 19 July 2009 05:13:06 am you wrote: > >> On 07/19/2009 03:16 AM, John Culleton wrote: > >> > IMO > >>> > >>> these required libraries should be embedded in the Gimp > >>> release itself but there may be turf issues that prevent > >>> that. > >> > >> Embedding babl and GEGL in the GIMP tarball would make usage > >> of GEGL by other projects much more complicated, and we don't > >> want that. A library shared between many apps will have much > >> more development and maintenance than a library only used by a > >> single app, so we should encourage usage of these libraries by > >> other projects. > >> > >> / Martin > > > > I look at it from the point of view of the user, who just wants > > to install the program and get it running on his/her machine. > > If you just want to install gimp and run it, use the package > manager that comes with your distro. By nature, building software > can be quite complicated and is not intended for "normal" users. > > Also, please keep the discussion on-list. > > / Martin
For Slack users the packages are usually a year or more old so we get in the habit of compiling from a more current tarball. Also, many packages are not included in the distros. Open Cobol is a good example. Everybody compiles it. Currently I am at Gimp 2.6.6 and I had to go through the gegl and babl stuff again (new computer). I see no compelling reason not to include the libs in the tarball. -- Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com For books on self-publishing please consult: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
