9.1-RELEASE is out - is there any hope for an actual graphics/gimp-app?

[Chris Rees]

On 10 Feb 2013 18:29, "Kevin Oberman" <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:40 AM, ajtiM <lumiwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 February 2013 16:20:33 Herbert J. Skuhra wrote:
> >> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:54:20 +0100
> >>
> >> Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> > Hi there,
> >> >
> >> > almost one year after gimp release 2.8 there ist still the old gimp
2.6
> >> > in ports.
> >>
> >> There is MarcusCom CVS Repository:
> >>
> >> http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
> >>
> >> The ports repo has gtk+-3.6.4 and gimp-2.8.2.
> >>
> >> No idea, if there are plans to merge this and when. Maybe you should
> >> ask gnome@?
> >
> > I don't know if is helpful: I am using Linux live ArtsX dvd and GIMP
works
> > very good. There is GIMP 2.8.2 on OpenBSD and on live cd:;
> > http://livecdgraphics.sourceforge.net/
> > But GIMP for FreeBSD I don't know and I didn't fing any information.
>
> As ajtiM suggests, @gnome is the place to look. Several threads on this.
>
> It, along with the whole of Gnome, were planned to be updated when 9.1
> was released, but the loss of pointyhat and the complexity of the
> update of Gnome with potential impact on literally hundreds of ports
> has forced a delay. It would be extremely unwise to do this without
> the level of testing pointyhat allows.
>
> Now that the FreeBSD cluster and support systems are finally coming
> back on-line, maybe it is getting closer, but I suspect that the
> testing and required adjustments will take a while after pointyhat is
> running.

I'm testing some updates on one of my machines, but as I'm sure you
appreciate doing builds of vast numbers of packages takes a while when you
are only using one :)

I really hope it'll be done soon-ish, but there's stuff to fix as well.

Also, s,hundreds,thousands, ....

Chris