Dear all, recently I have done additional work on the GIMP AppImage packages, trying to improve the compatibility with various linux distributions and improving the building/packaging scripts.
In a nutshell: * I have moved the build environment to CentOS 7, which is based on glibc 2.17 * the whole appimage creation process now runs through a single bash script that can be executed inside a docker container. This means that the automated integration, now based on Travis CI, can be easily moved to any other system that supports Docker * the appimage packages are now built in two flavours: one “bare” package that only provides GIMP, and a “full-featured” package that also contains few popular and useful plug-ins (including G’MIC-Qt) The 2.10.7 packages are available for download from here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous <https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous> Running the AppImages is very simple: * download the package * make it executable via chmod u+x * run the package as any other Linux executable A note to the developers: the current 2.10.x branch requires a quite recent version of Glib, but only due to the use of a single function in app/gui/splash.c, and only for diagnostics purposes. To circumvent the problem and be able to use the older Glib version available on CentOS 7, I am applying the following patch: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch <https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch> Is that OK? As mentioned above, the automated build procedure is currently based on GitHub/TravisCI. However, I am ready to move the scripts to some other CI system if you prefer… Cheers, Andrea _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
