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Subject: Re: graphics/gimp: What are the stoppers moving from port's covered
	version 2.6 to recent and modern version 2.8?
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"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> I'm wondering why FreeBSD ports takes so long to update quite oldish
> gimp-2.6 to gimp-2.8. Does anyone know what the stoppers are and where
> solutions needed?

Mee too. gimp 2.8 is from march(!) 2012 - now it is olmost october und
nothing happened..

This - and sometime the old graphics/rawtherapee port - makes FreeBSD
a litle unusable for foto-editing


Heino