Could it then be at least in backports for those of us who'd like a more
functional GIMP and don't want to wait for Hardy?
I could compile it myself, sure, but it'd be nice for it to integrate
nicely into the package manager. And Linux is hardly attractive to the
Windows crowd if they have to compile from source or {update,wait for
the next version of} their distro just to get a feature that's supposed
to be _in the current release_ much less a new version.
I don't understand why most users should have to wait that long. It
shouldn't take much to test the code. There's very little of it, and a
lot is the same as every other app that uses the GtkPrint API. I'd be
several security upgrades that do get pushed have a larger quantity of
"untested" code. Like Firefox revisions.
And this doesn't even replace any code that may have worked before.
Gutenprint seems to be happy to co-exist with the new plugin, so people
can always just use the old plugin.
What does it take to test the print plugin and have it be deemed worthy
of getting into Gutsy? I'd be happy to help test it if no one else will.
( Perhaps it's worth slightly rethinking the upgrade policy? Several people
I've suggested Linux to complain that Ubuntu makes it difficult to get new
versions of some program they like to use. In comparison, in Windows one can
just go and install the new version. Whereas I couldn't play with the GIMP 2.4
rc's because the package in Feisty was a bugfix and maintenance version behind.
Would it be sensible/feasible to have something sort of in between the current
stable and grabbing the alphas and betas of the next release? A
repository/release-schedule for those who aren't on systems that must be up
150% of the time and can handle code that's only been tested for a few weeks as
opposed to 6 months if it means we can get reasonably up-to-date packages and
have our packages supported with the upstream bugfixes. )
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