On Tuesday 21 July 2009 04:59:45 pm Sven Neumann wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 21:09 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > On Monday 20 July 2009 07:00:08 pm Jernej Simončič wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:47:53 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > > > The version that matches the version of Gimp in the tarball > > > > is what should be included IMO. > > > > > > Should GIMP then also include matching GTK+ and GLib? And > > > other mandatory dependencies? > > > > The hangup for many users is gegl and babl, and not the other > > requirements. The distros are more likely to include them. > > perhaps it is because gegl and babl are relatively new > > libraries, while the others have been with us for quite a > > while. > > Users don't build software from source. If you are building > software yourself, then you are a developer. And you shouldn't > really have a problem to compile these libraries then. If you > have questions, you are of course free to ask them and we will > try to help. But please don't ask us to simplify the build > process in such awkward ways. The source tree is not aimed at > users. Users should use whatever their distro offers. > > > Sven Understood. However I find Gimp 2.6 better than 2.4, which is what the latest stable version of my distro offers. So I will continue to be a user who compiles.
I must admit, compiling is becoming more difficult. Scribus uses cmake. Inkscape uses Automake and requires that you install Boehm-GC and Boost. The day of untar, ./configure, make and make install is apparently passing. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
