From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 19 6:56:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B2215274 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:56:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07694; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:56:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:56:34 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: D Tougas Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no stable port for The GIMP? In-Reply-To: <20000118220908.A62401@converging.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, (snipped -questions from the CC list) On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, D Tougas wrote: > I was just curious, why is only the developer release (1.1.14) > available as a port for The GIMP, and not the stable version? Because, at least in my use, the development branch is more stable than the old stable branch! I used to get crashes all the time on the stable branch - I haven't had one since the development branch got to 1.1.11 (now it's at 1.1.15). Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message