On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:59:26 +0200 Carmelo DrRaw via gimp-developer-list <gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear all, > > recently I have done additional work on the GIMP AppImage packages, > trying to improve the compatibility with various linux distributions > and improving the building/packaging scripts. > > In a nutshell: > * I have moved the build environment to CentOS 7, which is based on > glibc 2.17 > * the whole appimage creation process now runs through a single bash > script that can be executed inside a docker container. This means > that the automated integration, now based on Travis CI, can be easily > moved to any other system that supports Docker > * the appimage packages are now built in two flavours: one “bare” > package that only provides GIMP, and a “full-featured” package that > also contains few popular and useful plug-ins (including G’MIC-Qt) > > The 2.10.7 packages are available for download from here: > https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous > <https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous> > > Running the AppImages is very simple: > * download the package > * make it executable via > chmod u+x > * run the package as any other Linux executable Thanks for doing all this. Having the latest-and-greatest code easily available as an AppImage is really awesome :) > A note to the developers: the current 2.10.x branch requires a quite > recent version of Glib, but only due to the use of a single function > in app/gui/splash.c, and only for diagnostics purposes. To circumvent > the problem and be able to use the older Glib version available on > CentOS 7, I am applying the following patch: > https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch > <https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch> > Is that OK? This has already been fixed in the gimp-2-10 branch (master requires a newer GLib version). See commit 499a8962b326823bdf12936960798f802c79f283. -- Ell _______________________________________________ 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
