Right now the biggest issue I ran into with Quartz GIMP from MacPorts was lack of GPU acceleration. The stock version has it working. I can't remember which component had the issue.
On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 16:31 Christopher Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > We use Circle CI which doesn’t go that far back either (only 4 > versions). If any of you are interested in how we do it today, here’s the > repo: > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-macos-build > > Lukas, it would be great if you’re able to use MacPorts to package GIMP, > and we’ll certainly do whatever we can to support your efforts! > > I’ll start with a quick summary of where things stand, in case you haven’t > done a lot of in-depth digging yet: > > * glib2: We currently maintain three versions: > * The default is 2.64.6, via port ‘glib2' > * The next rev up is 2.66.8, via port 'glib2-devel' > * And finally, the newest stable release is 2.72.3, via port > 'glib2-upstream’ > * If you have a preference, you’ll want to install the desired one > first. All dependents are setup to work with all three though, and will > automatically use whichever one you have installed. > > * Presently we only apply a small subset of patches for GIMP and gtk-2. > (Though we’ve tried to cover the heavy-hitters, particularly related to > screen-update performance on the latest macOS releases.) So if there are > any that fix/improve runtime behavior, let me know! > > Cheers, > -Chris
