Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:17:33 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>, Koop Mast <kwm@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.1-RELEASE is out - is there any hope for an actual graphics/gimp-app? Message-ID: <CADLo83-Gj1MgaTvaUyUs6gr%2BhikRNNEM4bmHY-0JKjAo0eL3CA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1udOwuaTH0s4SMcekwB6%2BimYcJaKM0EF06ji1f7gA7KOw@mail.gmail.com> References: <sshku9-4ke1.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <86liawtcu6.wl%hskuhra@eumx.net> <1959767.Z81MK5onpC@luna.wi.rr.com> <CAN6yY1udOwuaTH0s4SMcekwB6%2BimYcJaKM0EF06ji1f7gA7KOw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10 Feb 2013 18:29, "Kevin Oberman" <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:40 AM, ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 10 February 2013 16:20:33 Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > >> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:54:20 +0100 > >> > >> Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap@gmx.de> wrote: > >> > Hi there, > >> > > >> > almost one year after gimp release 2.8 there ist still the old gimp 2.6 > >> > in ports. > >> > >> There is MarcusCom CVS Repository: > >> > >> http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ > >> > >> The ports repo has gtk+-3.6.4 and gimp-2.8.2. > >> > >> No idea, if there are plans to merge this and when. Maybe you should > >> ask gnome@? > > > > I don't know if is helpful: I am using Linux live ArtsX dvd and GIMP works > > very good. There is GIMP 2.8.2 on OpenBSD and on live cd:; > > http://livecdgraphics.sourceforge.net/ > > But GIMP for FreeBSD I don't know and I didn't fing any information. > > As ajtiM suggests, @gnome is the place to look. Several threads on this. > > It, along with the whole of Gnome, were planned to be updated when 9.1 > was released, but the loss of pointyhat and the complexity of the > update of Gnome with potential impact on literally hundreds of ports > has forced a delay. It would be extremely unwise to do this without > the level of testing pointyhat allows. > > Now that the FreeBSD cluster and support systems are finally coming > back on-line, maybe it is getting closer, but I suspect that the > testing and required adjustments will take a while after pointyhat is > running. I'm testing some updates on one of my machines, but as I'm sure you appreciate doing builds of vast numbers of packages takes a while when you are only using one :) I really hope it'll be done soon-ish, but there's stuff to fix as well. Also, s,hundreds,thousands, .... Chris
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