On Thu, May 2, 2019, 9:36 PM Ken Moffat via blfs-dev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 08:15:20PM -0600, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote:
> > Why is this package included in the book? What uses it? Any chance of
> > addoing the MyPaint package?
>
> ken@milliways ~ $find repos/BLFS-full/trunk/ -name '*.xml' | xargs grep
> 'linkend.*libmypaint'
> repos/BLFS-full/trunk/BOOK/general/graphlib/mypaint-brushes.xml:
> <xref role="runtime" linkend="libmypaint"/>
> repos/BLFS-full/trunk/BOOK/xsoft/other/gimp.xml:      <xref
> linkend="libmypaint"/>,
> ken@milliways ~ $
>
> Note that these versions are required by gimp-2.10, but I believe one
> or both is/are not the current versions.  The links to both the
> brushes and the lib are "duplicated" from gimp because for the
> brushes, the dependency is runtime, whereas for gimp they are both
> needed at compile time.
>
> What needs MyPaint, or what do you use it for, and is it anything
> more than a straight CMMI or CMake or Meson build (i.e. something
> that users can build without major problems) ?  In other words -
> what would be the benefit of adding it to the book (and perhaps
> duplicating the brushes and the lib) ?
>

I was just looking for a simple app that would allow me to work math
problems like on a whiteboard with my Wacom tablet and save my work. I
tried building MyPaint but ran into all sorts of issues, so I was hoping
someone had already figured it out.

>
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