On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser
<f...@snaggledworks.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/2012 12:23 AM, Bill Waggoner wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:04 AM,
>> <fink-devel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 01:03:52 -0300
>>> From: Gustavo Benedito Reis Costa <gusbened...@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Fink-devel] Please,   add GoldenDict and update Gimp 2.6 to
>>>          2.8.1 to Fink
>>> To: fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>>>
>>> Hello developers,
>>>
>>> Good evening!
>>>
>>> I'm new to Fink forum.
>>>
>>> I noticed Gimp 2.6 is outdated and GoldenDict isn't included in Fink
>>> list.
>>> I would like you add GoldenDict app and update Gimp for Fink, but I
>>> prefer
>>> you add GoldenDict, because it's one of most important applications of
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> You can see the discussions that I had with GoldenDict developers:
>>> https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/issues/124
>>>
>>> Thank you for your attention, understanding, help and patience!
>>>
>>> Gustavo Reis
>>
>>
>> Gimp 2.8.2 is now native OSX.  If someone would guide me through
>> putting together a Fink package I'd like to work to get that done.  I
>> have many, many years of systems experience but I've not put together
>> a Fink package.  Sounds like it might be a challenge ...
>
>
> Unfortunately, Fink's gimp2 is not upgradeable to the latest 2.8.2 because
> of missing dependencies. A quick check through the configure script shows
> that it needs babl-0.1.10 (Fink has 0.1.4) and gegl-0.2 (Fink has 0.1.6).
> Those are probably easily updateable.  However, it also has a requirment for
> glib-2.30.2 and Fink's glib2 is stuck at 2.22 because newer glib2 is broken
> on OS X in the latest versions.  There might be more missing dependencies,
> but I stopped at glib2 since it's fatal.
>
> So until glib2 is correctly buildable under OS X, gimp2 is stuck at 2.6.
>
> Hanspeter
>
> babl/gegl maintainer cc'd
>

Would it be productive for me to take a look into glib2?

Bill W

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