Re: [Gimp-developer] Hello newbie to the GNU/Linux/Open Source world.

2002-11-28 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 01:24:24 -0500, David Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in Florida. Tampa specifically, which is a great city, even if I do live here. And know what is perpetually annoying? Yankees coming down talking about how they do it up North. I live in Belgium. Liège

Re: [Gimp-developer] Hello newbie to the GNU/Linux/Open Source world.

2002-11-28 Thread David Neary
Raphaël Quinet wrote: you know what is perpetually annoying? Guys who think they know everything but apparently ignore what tolerance and openness mean. Guys who are not open to other points of view. Guys who have very important rants to write and cannot afford to spend five minutes or

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: regex+

2002-11-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Dov Grobgeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps replace it by pcre (www.pcre.org). It is pretty widely used these days. before you (or Robin) start to look for yet another regex replacement, you should probably have a look into the current GIMP development tree which has the problem

[Gimp-developer] Re: regex+

2002-11-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Perhaps replace it by pcre (www.pcre.org). It is pretty widely used these days. The problem with Perl-compatible regular expression is that they are NP-complete: http://perl.plover.com/NPC/ Normal regular expressions are polynomial time. Throughout

[Gimp-developer] Re: Film Gimp and GIMP

2002-11-28 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2002-11-27 at 2219.52 -0500): From what I heard, Gimp originally declined a merge with the hollywood branch, which I see as a serious mistake. Gimp isnt photoshop, and it isnt any other program that people compare it to. Gimp is more than all of them. And thanks to FG, Gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] Film Gimp and GIMP

2002-11-28 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 28-Nov-2002, Sven Neumann wrote: the point is that the new film-gimp maintainer or any of the people working on film-gimp don't communicate with us at all. The project somehow came back to life without any notification on this mailing-list. We had to hear about it in the news. Among

[Gimp-developer] Re: Film Gimp and GIMP

2002-11-28 Thread Carol Spears
On 2002-11-28 at 1259.18 -0500, Patrick McFarland typed this: Hrm. Side note, They got $1k from Linuxfund to further their project... hrm... $1k would not be enough to by the beer for the people who develop The GIMP (if i can at least add correctly). carol

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Film Gimp and GIMP

2002-11-28 Thread Steve Lipa
On Nov 28 Carol Spears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: $1k would not be enough to by the beer for the people who develop The GIMP (if i can at least add correctly). If any GIMP developers come to visit Research Triangle Park (Central North Carolina, USA) please drop me an email. I'd be happy to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Intolerance, and development.

2002-11-28 Thread David Neary
David Weeks wrote: Tolerance isn't the lack of criticism, and intolerance isn't the act of criticism, and beyond that, some things are tolerable, and some things are not. So let's drop the troll intolerant ignorant crap and deal with information. These reactions are human nature, and