Re: [Gimp-developer] Please migrate to GitHub/CMake

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

Hi Chris,

On Sun, 07 May 2017 09:31:29 -0400
Chris Moller <moller mollerware com> wrote:

> There's an American expression, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

You can find a rebuttal of this phrase, in a different context here:
https://szabgab.com/what-does--if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it--really-mean.html .

> GIMP development has been working well for a lot of years and I see 
> exactly zero reason to change something that works well.  I don't always 
> agree with minor bits of what the devs decide to do, but THEY'RE doing 
> the work and proposing fundamental changes that add nothing to the 
> coolness of GIMP helps no one.

I see some problems with GIMP development:

1. It's been taking too long to release new major versions.

2. There has been a problem to attract new developers and contributors.

3. GIMP is lacking many features that are present in similar proprietary
programs.

4. Some people still complain on GIMP being hard to use.

5. A personal pet peeve - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781340
(minor problem).

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So there's certainly room for improvement and it won't be a good idea not to
seek out ways to improve it. I'm not saying that moving to github and/or cmake
is the way to go, but we still should try to improve.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

> Chris Moller
>
>
>
> On 05/07/17 07:14, Marco Ciampa via gimp-developer-list wrote:
> > On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 01:42:57PM +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:  
> > > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Ivano Arrighetta wrote:  
> > > > Hello there.
> > > > My name is Ivano Arrighetta and I'm Italian.
> > > > I would like to suggest to migrate to GitHub for version control  
> > > No.
> > >  
> > > > and to use
> > > > CMake for creating build projects for Windows and Mac OS, other than
> > > > Makefiles for *nix.  
> > > CMake is just as painful as autohell.  
> > I confirm what Alexandre is saying, and I'm from Italy too... ;-)
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Marco Ciampa
> >
> > I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
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