Hi, RaphaXl Quinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/docs/which.gimp.html > > I think that some parts of this article are really inaccurate and are > likely to cause some unnecessary damage to the reputation of both > projects (GIMP and Film Gimp). It looks like you have a bad opinion > of the GIMP developers, but I hope that you will change your mind (and > the page). Raphael, thanks for writing this mail. I agree with all the points you made and would only like to add a few more words about the list of GIMP projects titled "Gimp projects are there?" This list gives the wrong impressions that there are separate ports of The GIMP to the Windows and Macintosh platforms. This is wrong. These projects use the same source code that is used to compile The GIMP for a large number of UNIX operating systems. The GIMP developers try very hard to write code that is platform-independent. All (or actually most of) the ugly details about different platforms are hidden in GLib and GDK. This is especially true for the current development version. The WinGimp and MacGimp projects (if there are any) are solely providing binary versions of the one true GIMP and I don't think they should be listed as separate GIMP projects. If you want to keep them in the list, you should also add GIMP for FreeBSD, GIMP for OpenBSD, GIMP for Debian Linux, GIMP for Solaris, GIMP for SuSE Linux, GIMP for AIX, GIMP for RedHat Linux, ..., ... and probably even GIMP for OS/2. The page at filmgimp.sourceforge.net also states: "GIMP and GIMP for Windows maintain totally separate mailing lists." It is true that there are different mailing-lists for users of GIMP on UNIX and users of GIMP for Windows. It turned out that this separation makes sense although I never liked the idea of making a difference between the same application running on different platforms. It is however wrong that there are different mailing-lists for the development of The GIMP. The sentence I quoted may however give this wrong impression. Overall, this new page on the filmgimp site is once more full of wrong facts that I have to try hard to suppress the feeling that Robin is knowingly and willingly spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt on The GIMP and I wonder what's the rationale of this. Salut, Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
