Hi Ken/Dick,

The issues w.r.t. bumping GIMP right now is not technical, it could be done
relatively easily, as you've seen, but there are logistic/legal issues that need
resolving before we can distribute it in SXDE or OpenSolaris.

Specifically the issue is it's dependency on gegl and babl, which are GPLv3
components - and GPLv3 legal approval is on a case-by-case basis at the moment -
so this has a knock-on effect on the ability to simply bump GIMP which is itself
the subject of a legal review - but it should happen, it's just a matter of
waiting to getting this approval.

Thanks,

Darren.

Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 06:24 -0800, Ken Mays wrote:
>> GIMP 2.6.5 for OpenSolaris
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> Ref: http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html
>>
>> This is the start of migrating GIMP 2.6.5 to OpenSolaris and what is needed 
>> to get us there. This is to also bring in the Gutenprint 5.2.3 print driver 
>> backend.
> 
> I have to say, with the CBE environment installed and with
> ". /opt/jdsbld/env.gcc.sh" the gimp-2.6.5 tarball compiled and installed
> perfectly. The software is much improved. I hope it will be part of SXCE
> soon too.
> 

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