On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Raphaël Quinet wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:48:01 -0400, Michael Hernandez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Aug 23, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Greg wrote: >>> Speaking of books, I have Beginning Gimp, which was published in '06 >>> but says it includes material on the "latest 2.4 release" >>> >>> Wha? >> >> Actually that book was written based on a development snapshot of >> GIMP. I find it to be a very useful book IMHO. I'm not sure how >> relevant it will continue to be though, based on the fact that the >> author really seems to have jumped the gun in regards to the GIMP 2.4 >> release. [...] > > Many users and developers were hoping for GIMP 2.4 to be released > around the end of summer last year. Alas, that didn't happen > because it took a long time to fix some nasty bugs, then it was > decided to include some new features because the release was not > ready anyway, then more bugs popped in, then it also took a while > to fix them, then even more features were added, even more bugs > were discovered and fixed, and so on... > > It is not surprising that the authors of some books were hoping > for 2.4 to be released earlier. Maybe they were a bit too > optimistic, but I wouldn't blame them for that. > > Now that we already have the first release candidate with lots of > nice features (and a few bugs that have already been fixed), we > are finally getting very close to the official release of GIMP 2.4. >
That is great news! Now I just hope it hasn't changed so much that my nice full color gloss beginning GIMP book is full of lies! :) --Mike H _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
