On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Mikael Ståldal wrote: > On the official GIMP homepage, you can read: > > "The GIMP team doesn't provide official Mac binaries." > > and > > "The GIMP team doesn't officially provide any Windows binaries." > > I think that the GIMP team should provide official binaries for Windows and > MacOS X.
Hi Mikael, I'm afraid you are missing an essential bit of information. Let me provide it :) Official support means that the team takes responsibility for how well GIMP works on those platforms and thus can be blamed for anything that is wrong there. Which means that someone in the core team should use this platform as a primary one and be ready to fix things for it. As far as I can tell the we don't have core team developers actively working on Windows (although some fixes do get applied to fix bugs on Windows). TBH, not so long ago the team was even discussing possibility to call Windows platform unsupported until the switch to GTK 3 due to a number of horrible bugs in advanced input devices support in GTK+ 2 which noone's going to fix. I'm not speaking on behalf of the rest of the team, but I can't see the point of providing a half-working solution for painters and calling it an official Windows build. Sorry. There _are_ some changes coming to Quartz port of GTK+ lately to make GIMP look and behave more natively on Mac, but I'm not sure that at this point we can call this platform officially supported (especially since we don't package DMGs). > This doesn't need to involve much work, perhaps you can get away with just > change the text on the homepage and declare the Windows and MacOS X packages > you already link to as official. I don't think we can get away with just that. We really do not provide binaries. It's a (much appreciated) 3rd party effort. OTOH, I do see your point, and hopefully at some point we'll get there. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
