Eric, > So the merge is on?
A restricted code merge has been underway for months, with CinePaint scavenging useful bits from GIMP 1.2. The CinePaint code tree was reorganized to separate source files sensitive to bit-depth from those that are not. Some GIMP 1.2 source files were then swapped out with the latter without anyone noticing. Some GIMP 1.2 plug-ins can now compile as-is under CinePaint's 1.0-like plug-in API, and that situation is improving all the time. Our new plug-in compatibility layer (PICL) enables CinePaint to accept plug-ins utilizing the GIMP 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2 APIs. Although code compatible, the plug-ins must be recompiled. Don't try to use plug-in binaries from GIMP in CinePaint. Despite the code reuse in some areas, CinePaint and GIMP are actually diverging. CinePaint has a very different vision for the future than GIMP. We're pulling in features that further our mission, rejecting others as irrelevant, and building new designs that have no counterpart in GIMP. CinePaint won't go back to being Film Gimp and can't ever rejoin the GIMP project. That irreversible decision was made -- or not made according to Sven -- in 2000, long before I came on the scene. GIMP misplaced three man-years of Hollywood-funded open source work. That's an immense amount of time and money to lose, especially for an open source project. There can be no going back. Cheers, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollywood, California www.CinePaint.org Free motion picture and still image editing software _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
