Building gimp-2.8

[Heino Tiedemann]

Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src at yandex.ru> wrote:

> Heino Tiedemann wrote on 22.05.2012 23:56:
>> ajtiM<lumiwa at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 07 May 2012 06:56:00 Matthieu Volat wrote:
>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>
>>>> As gimp 2.8 was released a few days ago, I naturaly tried to get it working
>>>> on my 9.0-RELEASE desktop :)
>>>>
>>>> I "forked" a few ports directories to bump gimp and the dependancies to the
>>>> needed versions. Everything seems to work quite nicely.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure those modifications cannot be pushed right now in the ports tree,
>>>> there are quite a few version bump that would impact other ports, but I'd
>>>> like to share them anyway.
>>>>
>>>> I've attached a tarball of my files, here are the list of modified ports:
>>>> glib20 ->  2.30.2
>>>> gio-fam-backend ->  2.30.2
>>>> atk ->  2.2.0
>>>> gtk ->  2.24.10
>>>> gdk-pixbuf2 ->  2.24.1
>>>> pango ->  1.29.4
>>>> babl ->  0.1.10
>>>> gegl ->  0.2.0
>>>> gimp ->  2.8.0
>>>>
>>>> I hope it can help people wanting to upgrade to the lastest version of
>>>> gimp.
>>>
>>> I like to give a try but I am not familliar with ports (I never dd). Maybe we
>>> will be lucky and GIMP 2.8 show in ports soon.
>>
>> Is here any maintainer who can tell - is there a gimp 2.8 at the and of
>> the tunnel? :) When it is there?
>>
>> Heino
>
> There is a patch from Koop Mast, that updates gimp to 2.8 (and
> gegl/babl too). But new gimp also requires more fresh atk and all of
> this needs testing. I can't recall the link for kwm's patch, and will
> not put one that I have somewhere, because there is possibility that
> there is updated version of it. Koop, can you please post that patch
> link here so the interested people can check it on their own?

What about now - 3 weeks later? Is there any timeline for the actual
gimp?

Heino