From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 9:14:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118D1150CA for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:14:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip135.r11.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.174.135]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07114 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:14:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <388741AC.E870DF83@nwlink.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:11:08 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no stable port for The GIMP? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > > The stable version isn't very good compared to the unstable branch. > > > > At least it does more than crash. > > I have yet to have any of the development branch lines that are/were in > ports crash and I use gimp relatively frequently. Are you experiencing > lots of crashes w/ the development version and if so what is causing them? > I'm sure that at least the Gimp team would like to know about it. It almost invariably crashes when doing any "big" task like redrawing the entire screen. What happens is it either locks up and will not continue, or it begins filling my desktop with duplicate gimp windows. I've never had any luck with the development version. -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message