Hi,
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 18:01 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:
> No, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. At least with GEGL disabled,
> There's no performance difference I know of between 2.6 and 2.7.
Ok, thanks.
> In truth I haven't run 2.6 very much on my slow low-memory PIII laptop,
> and 2.7 not
Sven Neumann writes:
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 22:39 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:
> > Unfortunately you may also have performance issues with GIMP 2.7
> > on a machine like that.
>
> Are you implying that GIMP trunk is in any way slower than GIMP 2.6
> (without enabling the GEGL projection, of course)?
Hi,
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 22:39 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Unfortunately you may also have performance issues with GIMP 2.7
> on a machine like that.
Are you implying that GIMP trunk is in any way slower than GIMP 2.6
(without enabling the GEGL projection, of course)? If you can show that
this
Rob Antonishen writes:
> I have an older PIII notebook I'm willing to blow away and use just
> for this purpose ... can anyone suggest the shortest path from a blank
> hard drive to a working gimp develpment environment?
Sven Neumann writes:
> It doesn't hurt to put babl and GEGL into /usr/local.
Hi,
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:25 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> Unless I am mistaken these libraries have been compiled with
> optimization enabled. Debugging code compiled with optimization doesn't
> really work out, there's too much jumping-around going on.
This might be true in theory. But I
Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 18:57 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote:
>
>> * Build unoptimized, debbugable versions of GLib and GTK+ so that you
>> can debug seamlessly through the GIMP/GTK+/GEGL/GLib/babl stack.
>>
>
> There's no need to do that. You can simply install t
Hi,
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 18:57 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> * Use a distro which has packages for reasonably new versions of the
> libraries GIMP depend on. Ubuntu 8.10 should work just fine.
> * Don't install any dependencies you need to build yourself (typically
> babl and GEGL) into /usr/
Rob Antonishen wrote:
> I've decided to try my hand at compiling gimp from source so I can
> look at possible development...
>
> can anyone suggest the shortest path from a blank
> hard drive to a working gimp develpment environment?
>
Hi and welcome!
Here are my recommendations:
* Use a dist
I've decided to try my hand at compiling gimp from source so I can
look at possible development...
I normally use windows, but have used linux in the past as a desktop
(redhat and ubuntu) and use it for my servers.
I have an older PIII notebook I'm willing to blow away and use just
for this purpo
