Hi,

Napoleon Ahiable writes:

Hi, this is just a concern that i have with the fact that realeses for gimp for windows still lacks behind the official realease on the site http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/. I am not complaining its just that if possible i would like to know why that is the case.

For example as at today, the stable version of the stable 2.0 tree is still 2.0.5 meanwhile 2.0.6 was realeased on 03/11/04 and the same for the the 2.2 tree which still has the 2.2 pre1. I for one had some crashes with the 2.2 pre1 so i am quite eager to test the 2.2 pre2 but i guess i have to wait.

I have no idea how to build a gimp windows package so the last think i would do is be ungrateful to Jernej Semoncic. I actually like to thank him for what he's done.

I guess it would help if someone could post a detailed description of how to build GIMP on Windows. Or does such a document exist already? Then please point us to it.

Sven

Hi,

Sven Neumann wrote:

Napoleon Ahiable writes:

I have no idea how to build a gimp windows package so the last think i would do is be ungrateful to Jernej Semoncic. I actually like to thank him for what he's done.

I guess it would help if someone could post a detailed description of how to build GIMP on Windows. Or does such a document exist already? Then please point us to it.

Michael Schumacher has worked on such a document. I have not managed to fully build the GIMP on Windows recently - the last time I tried was over a year ago, and at the time I had some libtool issues, IIRC. I know Hans Breuer successfully builds with Visual Studio too - the details are in README.win32.

Michael has documented the steps required to set up a build environment in the wiki:
http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp_2fMicrosoftWindows

Cheers, Dave.

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 03:47:16AM -0800, Napoleon Ahiable wrote:

Hi, this is just a concern that i have with the fact that realeses for gimp for windows still lacks behind the official realease on the site http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/. I am not complaining its just that if possible i would like to know why that is the case.

the reason would be that it is a volunteer effort.

i wonder if newer users to gimp and other gnu applications understand this or if they imagine several well paid (or even paid) programmers making this stuff.

to the best of my knowledge this is not the case.

perhaps the lag has to do with something you are not volunteering to do?

carol

Hi,

Napoleon Ahiable writes:

this is just a concern that i have with the fact that realeses for gimp for windows still lacks behind the official realease on the site http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/. I am not complaining its just that if possible i would like to know why that is the case.

This is actually a misunderstanding. The official GIMP releases are source code releases only. There are no official binary releases for any platform whatsoever. Fortunately there are a few people who are doing you and other users the favor of building binaries. In the past, binaries for the Win32 platform have showed up reasonably fast, faster than for most other platforms. So far the only two sources of binaries for GIMP 2.2-pre2 that I know about are Jernej's site (which offers a Win32 build) and Debian experimental (GNU/Linux).

Sven