Very sad to hear that the dev community is too small to support all
three platforms into the future. And particularly sad, for personal
reasons, at the loss of the MacOS port. But you can only do what you
can do.

It may now be time to remind my wife that my Linux laptops aren't good
enough for image editing, and I need a proper Linux box with a decent
monitor! ;)

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 15:49, Pascal Obry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello!
>
> Some news about darktable positioning.
>
> The good news is darktable binary is now half the size of previous
> release. Thanks to the removal of most superfluous modules that almost
> nobody uses like velvia, tone curves, liquify... The GUI is now lighter
> than ever.
>
> Some views have also been removed like Map, Tethering, Slideshow to
> keep the most important ones.
>
> All remaining modules have also been revamped to remove many controls
> and keep them usable by beginners (most dev modules have now one or two
> sliders), the others parameters have good defaults or computed based on
> the others. This will be a good ground to attract beginners, for hard-
> core people it is highly advised to keep 3.4.1.
>
> These decisions are been made because the dev community is too small
> and we cannot at this stage support all the base code. We have decided
> to keep Windows for now but the MacOS port will be removed.
>
> The 3.6 release is still plan for end of June or very early in July.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>   Pascal Obry /  Magny Les Hameaux (78)
>
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>
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