Re: [CinePaint] Debian and other blog news

Frank Peters <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.cinepaint.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:40:22 -0800
Robin Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Want to be the new Debian CinePaint maintainer?
> 
> http://cinepaint.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-debian-cinepaint-maintainer.html
> 

Debian is dropping support for Gtk-1?  There are still quite a few
valuable programs out there that continue to use Gtk-1 as their only
toolkit.

That is the major problem with Linux distributions.  They tend
to become far too monolithic and eliminate many choices for
the user.  That's why I decided a long time ago to abandon
distributions and to maintain my own Linux system.

Couldn't the Cinepaint developers provide a few generic compiled
packages (e.g. RPM, .deb, .tar.gz) on the download site?  Doing
this shouldn't take too much extra effort and would reduce
dependence on the distributions.

I would like to contribute a package but I heavily customize my
own Cinepaint version by removing the HDR and ICC Viewer functions
and doing some other tweaks as well.  I doubt if other users would
desire that kind of modified Cinepaint.

Frank Peters


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