[MacPorts] #62557: port is 4 months stale compared to nightly unstable version of gimp, is missing important GIMP commits
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#62557: port is 4 months stale compared to nightly unstable version of gimp, is
missing important GIMP commits
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Reporter: bootchk | Owner: (none)
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version:
Keywords: | Port: gimp2-devel
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The port uses a commit that is four months old. Even at the time the
port was created, it was only about a month newer than the stable version
port (gimp2). With the passage of time, the gimp2-devel port increasingly
does not represent the current state of the development version of GIMP
2.10.
Maybe it is just a matter of education, or that I missed reading
something. I assumed that the port would pull the latest, nightly
version, whenever the port was built. Maybe I am supposed to edit the
port file myself, to change the pulled version. Maybe you could put a
comment in the port file, or in the documentation for Macports explaining
the purpose of ports with the "-devel" nomenclature. I suppose if a port
file pulled the latest commit every time it was built, it would be nearly
impossible to keep track of defects.
(Also, when I browsed Macports, the "devel" category, it did not seem to
find gimp2-devel.)
Related to another issue that I will create a ticket for, the "gimp2" port
is missing a patch for "unable to open script-fu-int".
Just to explain the context, when I first used the gimp2 port, I found
that issue. So I thought, "get the gimp2-devel port, it will have all the
latest GIMP commits." But it doesn't, and I later found that there is a
commit in GIMP that fixes the issue.
Thanks for your work, I really like Macports, I am not trying to be
critical, just to document.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62557>
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