On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 11:17 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Sam Gleske wrote: > > > I'd rather dpkg -i or rpm -i to install a package than use a 3rd > > party > > app. For Windows/Mac platforms I'd say it's useful but for Linux I > > don't > > have much of a use for it. I had proposed a 3rd party platform to > > be > > distro-independent in the past (Steam) but there wasn't much > > interest > > around supporting that. > > Sam, I think I'm missing something. What's really needed is a static > build of up-to-date version of GIMP. That's all. > > It doesn't have to be RPM, and it doesn't have to be DEB. It doesn't > even have to be installable. A simple static build inside a tarball, > provided by download.gimp.org, will work just fine. Thousands and > thousands of Blender users will confirm. There is no such thing as a "simple static build" of GIMP and its dependencies. There are gazillions of loadable modules in our libraries, I really don't see what a static build would improve. We need a *relocatable* build, but it doesn't need to be static. - build all deps into a prefix - enable relocation on all of them where needed/possible - provide a launcher script - tar up the install prefix - ... - profit --Mitch _______________________________________________ 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
