Hi, On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Elle Stone >> ... >> >> Like some others here, I don't really get it. I never had any problem >> with GIMP compilation. GIMP uses the very common tryptic of all GNU >> projects (and most Free Software): ./configure && make && make install >> It has some dependencies, especially when compiling the git version, >> but they all follow the same 3-command method. I just don't get what >> is difficult with this. >> ... >> Jehan > > > Clearly you've never compiled on Windows and/or Mac and hence you make such > statements. Well you take some serious assumption here, since I'm one of the rare GIMP devs who sometimes fixes bugs for Windows! I did once compiled on Windows, the problem was that it was slow as hell, but the compilation in itself was using the same 3 commands (once the environment was set-up, which is usually indeed very annoying on Windows but only done once). Now I rather cross-compile on Linux for Windows regularly. And it's fast and easy. Of course it means to understand the logics of cross-compiling first and that takes some time the first time as well. But computer science is not magic. Things take time. Developers need to understand things (and if a developer is not even *willing* to spare a little time to understand the overall concept of compilation, seriously I would doubt one's capacity to help our project efficiently). Do you have *any* example of other program which does things better than us as for compilation process? As said, we have the most common compilation system (the GNU one, in particular using the autotools. I have several dozen local repositories of various projects in my hard drive, they nearly all use the same), so that sounds strange to hear it can be a blocker. Jehan _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
