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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:46:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gimp port 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.960828084543.23206C-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199608280729.AAA12779@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Josh MacDonald wrote:

> 
> On the gimp port:
> 
> Its really kind of pointless to go messing around with getting the
> 0.54 to work, the new version in beta at 
> ftp://xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp/developers is much more complete,
> and doesn't require motif, and there's no way the authors (with 
> whom I'm fairly close friends) are going to maintain or answer
> questions about.  I've contributed some code to their new widget 
> toolkit and as such can guarantee that it compiles out of the box
> on FreeBSD.
> 
> On the current topic, they have reworked the gimprc code which was
> really stupid in 0.54.

Tell me when/where the latest version is, I'll move the port to that.  At
the moment, the port of 0.54 works ok, I fixed all.  It Does Need Motif
right now.

> 
> -josh
> 
> >  * I just re-rebuilt it and tested it, I can't get it to fail yet.  Did you
> >  * reinstall the /usr/X11R6/lib/tmp/gimprc as ~/.gimprc ?  The end of the
> >  * install target echo's some hints on this ....
> > 
> > Oh, I see.  Well, there are two problems here:
> > 
> > (1) The echo is buried inside a barrage of other printouts.  At least
> >     it should be moved to the end of the post-install target, and
> >     surrounded by some eye-catching decoration.
> > 
> > (2) pkg_add says nothing about it, so users without Motif (like me!)
> >     won't see it.  It should probably be put there as pkg/INSTALL as a 
> >     post-installation script (that way you can simply call that from
> >     post-install).
> > 
> > (3) That will still only show up on the system administrator's shell.
> >     Maybe we can change the message `gimp fatal error: ".gimprc" file
> >     not found' to something that suggests the users copy that file to 
> >     their home directories?
> > 
> > Oops, there were three.
> > 
> > Satoshi
> 

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