On Friday 18 July 2003 16:59, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to inform you about our plans for the GIMP 2.0 release. (...) > > Originally we wanted to get GIMP 2.0 out at GimpCon. Since that is > actually in three weeks, we will definitely not make it but I am > still optimistic that we will manage to feature-freeze at the Camp > and do something that we can call a 2.0 prerelease. Perhaps we will > need to declare one or two missing features as bugs but basically > the release made at GimpCon should have everything that GIMP 2.0 > will have. Sven, I am here working, though slowly, on the programable layer mode, which I proposed when I first joined the list. It's not such a small change, since adding layer modes breaks the cross-reading of .xcf files. So what I need to know now is: - If I deliver a partially working patch by next week, could it be included before the feature freeze? - Else, I think the proper moment to bring it up would be when the new GIMP file save format, which is on topic nowadays, would be implemented. Could that be 2.2 ? Or do we have a chance of having this new file format in 2.0? If yes, I think it could be done in a way that new layer formats could be made not to break badly the backwards compatibility. Thanks. JS -><-
