graphics/gimp: What are the stoppers moving from port's covered version 2.6 to recent and modern version 2.8?

[O. Hartmann]

Am 09/29/12 18:11, schrieb Ruslan Mahmatkhanov:
> Hi!
> 
> Heino Tiedemann wrote on 29.09.2012 19:20:
>> "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering why FreeBSD ports takes so long to update quite oldish
>>> gimp-2.6 to gimp-2.8. Does anyone know what the stoppers are and where
>>> solutions needed?
>>
>> Mee too. gimp 2.8 is from march(!) 2012 - now it is olmost october und
>> nothing happened..
>>
>> This - and sometime the old graphics/rawtherapee port - makes FreeBSD
>> a litle unusable for foto-editing
>>
>>
>> Heino
> 
> As far I know, the gimp and gnome update will not be done until FreeBSD
> 9.1 will be released (a couple of weeks at minimum). But in a mean time
> you can update the required ports manually, using this archive:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~rm/gimp.tgz
> 
> Note: please do not just copy them over the current ports, because there
> is some patches, that should be removed first to make things working!
> 
> And. What is wrong with rawtherapee? It's on it's latest version as far
> I understand.
> 


Thank you very much.

As I saw at www.gimp.org, there are several ports which need updates.

Thanks for the link and patches.

Regards,
Oliver

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