Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-10-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:36:02 -0300 Gez wrote: > El mié, 30-09-2015 a las 23:49 +0200, Michael Natterer escribió: > > I hope that nobody uses debian testing, the most unstable of > > all debians :) > Sore feelings after the gcc-5 migration? :-) More to the point for GIMP

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-10-04 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 10/03/2015 04:03 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > [...] but for the people who don't realize that there's a single > command that will automatically download and install all those 100 > build requires Sam mentioned :) maybe Fedora, Mageia or Ubuntu would > be better. If I got it right, the idea

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-10-03 Thread Elle Stone
On 10/02/2015 09:24 PM, Christopher Curtis wrote: I've never used it but wouldn't Gentoo be ideal for this? A source-based distribution that compiles and installs the latest dependencies? Gentoo usually is compiled optimized for the specific hardware that it's run on. I'm assuming this

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-10-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:48:39 +0200 Jehan Pagès wrote: > Actually not all core devs. Over time, I have built GIMP on Mageia, > Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu), and now Fedora. Though it is true that > at times, I happened sometimes to be forced to build more dependencies

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-10-02 Thread Simon Budig
Liam R E Quin (l...@holoweb.net) wrote: > The difficulties of using Debian Testing are likely to outweigh any > benefits, plus anyone working closely with git gimp is likely to want > to test fixes to babl and/or gegl as they happen. gimp from git specifically depends on gegl/babl from git. Bye,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-10-02 Thread Christopher Curtis
I've never used it but wouldn't Gentoo be ideal for this? A source-based distribution that compiles and installs the latest dependencies? It looks like Elle Stone develops under Gentoo, perhaps she can chime in?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-30 Thread Michael Natterer
On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 20:55 +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > On 09/28/2015 08:40 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: > > > FUTURE: > > Even when I maintain the build system at build.gimp.org there's > > regularly a > > "works for me" statement when the build system fails but it passes > > on a > >

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-30 Thread Gez
El mié, 30-09-2015 a las 23:49 +0200, Michael Natterer escribió: > I hope that nobody uses debian testing, the most unstable of > all debians :) Testing is simply a rule we use to figure what we > can depend on, nothing more. We needed some rule and made one. Sore feelings after the gcc-5

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-29 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Michael Schumacher > wrote: > >> GIMP developers use Debian Testing, with the assumption that is anything >> is present there, then a GIMP build can require it. >>

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Sam Gleske
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > > On 09/28/2015 07:30 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Michael Schumacher > > wrote: > >> Um... why is KDE in there? > >> > > > > I realize KDE is not everyone's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Sam Gleske
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Pat David wrote: > Maybe GNOME?. :) > It could be provided as an option. KDE is what I use typically during development which is why I set it. However, setting it to something more light weight like XFCE by default makes sense in terms of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 09/28/2015 08:22 PM, Ofnuts wrote: > Plenty of UIs and desktop managers, and plenty of development tastes... > I'm myself on KDE, but if your VM was running Gnome or Unity, it would > be useless to me. I do use a VM for some development that can only be > done on Windows, but using a Linux

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Sam Gleske
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > > On 09/27/2015 08:35 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: > > >1. Install vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/ > >2. Clone: git clone https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp > > Um... why is KDE in there? > > Because

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Pat David
Maybe GNOME?. :) On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:23 PM Sam Gleske wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Michael Schumacher > wrote: > > > > > > > On 09/27/2015 08:35 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: > > > > >1. Install vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/ > > >

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Ofnuts
On 28/09/15 19:22, Sam Gleske wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: On 09/27/2015 08:35 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: 1. Install vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/ 2. Clone: git clone https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp Um... why is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 09/28/2015 08:40 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: > FUTURE: > Even when I maintain the build system at build.gimp.org there's regularly a > "works for me" statement when the build system fails but it passes on a > developers laptop. These challenges hinder progress when having a > repeatable build

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 09/27/2015 08:35 PM, Sam Gleske wrote: >1. Install vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/ >2. Clone: git clone https://github.com/samrocketman/vagrant-gimp Um... why is KDE in there? -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-28 Thread Sam Gleske
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Ofnuts wrote: > > Plenty of UIs and desktop managers, and plenty of development tastes... > I'm myself on KDE, but if your VM was running Gnome or Unity, it would be > useless to me. I do use a VM for some development that can only be done on >

[Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-09-27 Thread Sam Gleske
Hello devs and users, I want to lower the barrier of entry of GIMP development for people who want to contribute to GIMP. I just made a quick set-up development environment for GIMP. This way new developers can get their first build of GIMP in minutes (depending on internet connection) rather