Comments on: Building GIMP 2.7.x from source http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247 Companion site to the book by Michael J. Hammel, published by No Starch Press Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:41:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: mjhammel http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247&cpage=1#comment-1547 mjhammel Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:50:06 +0000 http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247#comment-1547 I wasn't sure, but grep'ing for "ruby" in the source tree I found this in the Changelog: <blockquote>2009-03-26 Martin Nordholts Apply patch from Henrik Akesson that adds initial how-to-hack-on-GEGL documentation, including a ruby script to generate a graphviz graph of the class inheritance trees in the core.</blockquote> So it appears its only needed for documentation of some kind. As for speeding development, the developers are always welccoming to offered help. I couldn't say if more developers would speed things up. That's really up to the development team. I wasn’t sure, but grep’ing for “ruby” in the source tree I found this in the Changelog:

2009-03-26 Martin Nordholts

Apply patch from Henrik Akesson that adds initial
how-to-hack-on-GEGL documentation, including a ruby script to
generate a graphviz graph of the class inheritance trees in the
core.

So it appears its only needed for documentation of some kind.

As for speeding development, the developers are always welccoming to offered help. I couldn’t say if more developers would speed things up. That’s really up to the development team.

]]> By: dm http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247&cpage=1#comment-1546 dm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:36:03 +0000 http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247#comment-1546 Why does GEGL need Ruby to build? I'm also curious how much faster development could speed toward 2.8 if there was one more developer putting serious time into GIMP. I've been thinking about contributing to an open source project, but haven't decided which yet. Why does GEGL need Ruby to build? I’m also curious how much faster development could speed toward 2.8 if there was one more developer putting serious time into GIMP. I’ve been thinking about contributing to an open source project, but haven’t decided which yet.

]]> By: mjhammel http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247&cpage=1#comment-1499 mjhammel Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:45:21 +0000 http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247#comment-1499 Note: as of today (2009-11-09) I was required to download the latest versions of GLIB and GTK+ to build GIMP from the git repository on Fedora 11. So from now on I'll just have to update these libraries into the /usr/local/gimpgit directories as required. Note: as of today (2009-11-09) I was required to download the latest versions of GLIB and GTK+ to build GIMP from the git repository on Fedora 11. So from now on I’ll just have to update these libraries into the /usr/local/gimpgit directories as required.

]]> By: mjhammel http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247&cpage=1#comment-1200 mjhammel Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:38:49 +0000 http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247#comment-1200 Glad you're looking forward to the update. I hope to have it out by late summer next year. The compile from source is actually easier than 2.6 was when done on an updated Fedora 11 distribution. That may not be the case later if the developers start to depend on new features in GTK+. As for SuSE, I can't say what problems you'll encounter. We use SuSE at work but only for occasional cross distro builds. And I don't do those. In any case, best of luck. Feel free to add comments here on problems you encounter on SuSE. Glad you’re looking forward to the update. I hope to have it out by late summer next year.

The compile from source is actually easier than 2.6 was when done on an updated Fedora 11 distribution. That may not be the case later if the developers start to depend on new features in GTK+. As for SuSE, I can’t say what problems you’ll encounter. We use SuSE at work but only for occasional cross distro builds. And I don’t do those.

In any case, best of luck. Feel free to add comments here on problems you encounter on SuSE.

]]> By: dj http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247&cpage=1#comment-1197 dj Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:43:58 +0000 http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/?p=247#comment-1197 "I’m preparing to update my GIMP book" - Yeh!! I may brave the upgrade after reading your compile from source steps. There's no pre-built rpm for my release of SuSE. This use to be done all the time on Slackware. “I’m preparing to update my GIMP book” – Yeh!!

I may brave the upgrade after reading your compile from source steps. There’s no pre-built rpm for my release of SuSE. This use to be done all the time on Slackware.

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