Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.1.29
Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GIMP 1.1.29 is out there. This is a release candidate for 1.2. So scream if you see any major brokenness. Ugh. I haven't got around to fixing the (lack of) premultiplied alpha in the Blend tool when using custom gradients. [I downloaded the SRPM with the intention of writing a patch, forgot about it, and was reminded until now. Excuses, excuses.] You could say that it is a major piece of brokenness for the GIMP not to do garbage collection around buggy plug-ins or scripts, but I know this is nontrivial to fix. Federico
Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.1.29
On Tuesday, 31 Oct 2000, Manish Singh wrote: GIMP 1.1.29 is out there. This is a release candidate for 1.2. So scream if you see any major brokenness. Uh, well, there's at least: #17904: rounding error in calculation of selection boundary Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]; merged with #22375; 99 days old. #17906: layer move mouse handling not pixel-perfect Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 99 days old. #25272: [gimp-bug] The thumbnails (.xvpics) do not always match the image. Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 41 days old. (and this bug is actually the tip of a can of worms; see the recent discussion on this list) #27786: screenshot plugin on Solaris takes bus error on exit Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 19 days old. (this one is actually a bit more complex that that, and it probably affects other platforms too, it's just that Solaris feels it particularly badly). I'm pretty sure there's other equally serious bugs: these are just my favourites. On the bright side, I don't think we have any easily-reproducible segfaults in the main application. If anyone knows of any, shout now! Austin
Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.1.29
Seth Burgess e-mailed me on Wed Nov 1 12:22:54 2000 (Re: "Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.1.29") #27786: screenshot plugin on Solaris takes bus error on exit Subject: gimp; Severity: grave; Reported by: Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 19 days old. (this one is actually a bit more complex that that, and it probably affects other platforms too, it's just that Solaris feels it particularly badly). I'm running Solaris 8 for Intel. You know, I've been seeing something like this as well, but not just with the "screenshot" plugin. The "gz" and "bzip" plugins die as well. The plugins are actually working perfectly, it's just that waitpid() seems to be filling in its status with something pretty funky. I'm guessing the problem is somewhere with the internationalization stuff. Quite odd - because if I add some fprintf()s into the "gz" plugin to try to debug it a bit - it starts working (actually, if I just add a 'fprintf(stderr,"")' right after the call to INIT_I18N() the plugin works - if I add it before, it doesn't). I have 3 Solaris x86 boxes that I can reproduce this on. One of them was just recently scrubbed and the OS re-installed. I built Gimp from scratch, but I still got the problem. Is there anything I can do to help? -- Nem W Schlecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Empyreal Technologieshttp://www.emptec.com/ "Perl did the magic. I just waved the wand."
Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.1.29
Austin Donnelly wrote: On Tuesday, 31 Oct 2000, Manish Singh wrote: GIMP 1.1.29 is out there. This is a release candidate for 1.2. So scream if you see any major brokenness. Uh, well, there's at least: [...] Hmm, I'd be really reluctant to concede that these constitute anything resembling 'major brokenness' (though I too have my personal favourite bugs lately such as enormous help-system omissions and the stickiness-bug when moving layers with a wacom stylus -- these are annoyances rather than showstoppers). Realistically the truly-critical bug list is pretty well-tamed currently but the impetus to fix things has been faltering to match. The tree is in reasonably good shape and a release would hopefully revitalize the development team -- after the first year or so the 1.1.x cycle started to feel more like purgatory than software development! --Adam -- Adam D. Moss. ,,^^[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.foxbox.org/
