Re: CM error dialog

Robin,

Am 23.11.08, 07:23 -0800 schrieb Robin Rowe:
> Kai-Uwe:
> > The without Oyranos build where kept be me optional as much as
> > the Gutenprint stuff. Only for specialised users, and not for
> > the general audience. A distribution should have OpenEXR,
> > which where and probably is an issue on Debian, Gutenprint
> > and it is time as well for Oyranos.
> > The last release, Oyranos-0.1.8, has targeted the most
> > important issues,which where mentioned in respect to
> > distribute Oyranos with debian.
>
> Sometimes the non-native English thing gets in our way, and this is one
> of those cases. You could written the above in German for as much as I
> can comprehend what you're saying.
>
> I'm baffled what you're trying to say about OpenEXR and Gutenprint in
> regard to a CMS error message dialog box. OpenEXR and Gutenprint are
> broadly supported by distros. Oyranos is not. So?

Not so. OpenEXR where long times outdated in debian. You decided 
that CinePaint is not intented for distribution without OpenEXR. This was 
pretty consense.

> What do you want to do?

I will not take over the burden to support a CinePaint without Oyranos 
inside a major distribution.

> Looking to the future, are you working toward CMS becoming a standard
> feature? What is the status of official packages of Oyranos for Fedora,
> Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Gentoo, and FreeBSD? When will it be supported by
> the yum and apt-get repositories? Is official support coming? Who are
> the packagers you're working with?

> > Fedora is one of the larger distributions known to me. I am not aware 
> > of others.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org


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