Gimp package?

[Gary Aitken]

On 09/21/13 13:15, grarpamp wrote:
> On 9/19/13, Gary Aitken <vagabond at blackfoot.net> wrote:
>> On 09/19/13 12:46, grarpamp wrote:
>>
>>> Hi. I see that a gimp port exists so I went to try the gimp package
>>> but could not find it in the stable i386 package branches on
>>> the FTP server, or in say 9 stable amd64. Is there a problem
>>> building or distributing it to FTP or am I missing something?
>>> The release packages are usually rather old so I use stable.
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> I have gimp installed under 9.1, amd64, built from ports and it works
>> great.  I don't know about packages, however.
> 
> Well then that would mean packaging is broken or
> the port code hasn't made it to FTP package building yet,
> so nobody can use the package for a while now.

I wouldn't know about that as I'm not familiar with 
the mechanism by which official packages are produced.

I just wanted to use it so I built it from ports.

Sorry I don't have any more info / can't be of more help.

Gary