[Gimp-user] babl

[John Culleton]

On Monday 20 July 2009 05:25:12 pm Martin Nordholts wrote:
> On 07/20/2009 11:20 PM, John Culleton wrote:
> > I see no compelling reason not to include the libs in the
> > tarball.
>
> What is so problematic about fetching the libs from ftp.gimp.org?
>
That is certainly an improvement over searching the web. But go to 
the top of this thread and see the turmoil one user went through 
trying to get Gimp going. 
 
> If you suggest we should have the actual babl and GEGL code in
> the GIMP tarball, this is a bad idea. babl and GEGL are version
> controlled in different git repos, and it is not an option to
> version control them in the GIMP repo. They are separate,
> self-contained libraries.
>
>   / Martin
The version that matches the version of Gimp in the tarball is what 
should be included IMO.  Presumably that is the version that is on 
gimp.org now.  If e.g. Slackware can prepackage Gimp with all the 
required libraries it seems to me that the Gimp folks could do the 
same. But I guess we will have to disagree on this. 

Regards,


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