Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:09:44 -0700 From: "William Skaggs" <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> GIMP 2.0 was released on March 23, 2004, and then GIMP 2.2 on December 19, 2004. This was a 9 month release cycle, which is quite reasonable. Howver, it has been over a year and a half since the 2.2 release, and we are still not visibly nearing a 2.4 release. This slow progress is holding up important things, including, especially, GEGL integration. What can be done? Compared with us (Gutenprint), that's still positively speedy. GIMP 2.2 is a great application, albeit with some serious limitations (no 16-bit support, etc.). I'd personally prefer to see you folks take more time -- even quite a bit more time -- to get it right rather than try to rush a release. Keep doing 2.2-based releases with incremental functionality while working on a next generation release that will really improve matters. I was hoping that we'd be able to do our followon to Gimp-Print 4.2 within 12-18 months, but it didn't work out that way -- it was more like 4.5 years between Gimp-Print 4.2 and Gutenprint 5.0. There was a lot of churn along the way, but we rearchitected a lot of the internals to come up with a really general option system and a fully orthogonal 16-bit internal architecture (i. e. all of the input types we accept are capable of both 8 and 16 bits). Doing that design -- along with beating the color architecture into shape -- simply took a lot of time. If GEGL integration really is a hard problem, it's going to come out a lot better if you take the time to do it right rather than rushing it. I'd like to see a 16-bit GIMP as much as anyone -- it's a critical part of a RAW-based workflow, and it's needed for HDR imaging, which is something I'd really like to try -- but it's going to be a lot better if it's done right. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
