Gimp Fails to Build

[Yves de Champlain]

Here is what I did

gimp is now the same port as gimp2

when 2.4 comes out, I will remove both gimp-dev (2.3.x) and gimp2

yves

Le 07-05-01 à 05:05, Boey Maun Suang a écrit :

>
> On 01/05/2007, at 15:05, markd at macports.org wrote:
>
>> Yves de Champlain <yves at gnu-darwin.org> on Monday, April 30, 2007  
>> at 8:51
>> PM -0800 wrote:
>>>> Is there any reason why we shouldn't just update gimp to the
>>>> current gimp-2 version?  Nothing depends upon it according to
>>>> pipping's find_dependents.pl script.
>>>
>>> good idea, if no objections come in, I'll just do that.
>>
>> I don't get it.  So we'll have duplicate ports with different names?
>
> For now, yes, but I reckon that, since nothing depends on gimp, we  
> can just keep increasing its version to 3.x.x or whatever it  
> becomes in the future, while leaving gimp2 as the latest 2.x.x  
> release.  This is a bit new compared to the naming scheme that  
> seems to have been used so far, but I think would be sensible for  
> those people and packages that want to track the latest and  
> greatest, while giving an option for sticking with earlier versions  
> where necessary.  I've been thinking about this with respect to the  
> docbook ports, too, particularly with the impending version 5  
> release.  I envisage something like:
>
> docbook412 (4.1.2)
> docbook43 (4.3.x)
> docbook44 (4.4.x)
> docbook45 (4.5.x)
> docbook4 (4.x.x)
> docbook50 (5.0.x)
> docbook5 (5.x.x)
> docbook (whatever the latest is)
>
> There might be consequences, however, how we maintain ports in  
> future, and it also seems like a bit of a departure from how things  
> have been done before, so it might be best to hold off until there  
> has been some wider discussion, especially on macports-dev (where  
> I've been intending to raise this anyway).  Still, I think that the  
> fact that people are expecting the gimp port to be the latest  
> version is understandable and a sensible thing to try to conform to.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Maun Suang
>
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> Email: boeyms at macports.org
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