On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:57:49PM -0400, Andrei Simion wrote: > Michael Schumacher wrote: > > >Andrei Simion wrote: > > > > > >>>>At gimp.org they don't have downloads for 2.2. If you say it works, > >>>>this is good. But why they don't say the same on the web site. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>If you're looking for binaries, Fedora Core 3 is listed, which would be > >>>a Red Hat. You can build from source on any Linux distro though. > >> > >> > >>It's not me the one who decides. If they haven't built and tested the > >>2.2 on the older versions of Red Hat, then this solution is not > >>acceptable for us. > > > > > >Who are the "they" you are talking about? Just in case you didn't > >notice, there are no binaries on gimp.org, all the links point to > >external sites. No one from gimp.org explicitely tests GIMP on any > >platform, except that the developers run it on their own platforms, of > >course. > > I haven't downloaded anything from gimp.org so I didn't know the > binaries come from other entities. I haven't intended to be > disrespectful; if so, please accept my apologies. > > But let's go back to my problem. There's a swap file increase every time > I run a Perl script that creates an image on the GIMP 1.2. I tried to > delete the image at the end of my script, just to see if the swap file > stops increasing. The result was negative. I cannot change the OS on the > server (I have other services running) and everything should be tested. > I have to stick on Red Hat. So build 2.2 on whatever Red Hat distro you use. There is no reason 2.2 should not work on it. > The question is whether you have encountered such a problem (swap file > increase). There aren't any known problems like this in 2.2. There are in 1.2, along with hundreds of other problems. -Yosh
