Opened 3 years ago

Closed 3 years ago

#62557 closed update (fixed)

gimp2-devel: update to newer commit

Reported by: bootchk (Lloyd Konneker) Owned by: mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Port: gimp2-devel

Description (last modified by bootchk (Lloyd Konneker))

The port uses a commit that is four months old. Even at the time the port was created, it was only about a month newer than the stable version port (gimp2). With the passage of time, the gimp2-devel port increasingly does not represent the current state of the development version of GIMP 2.10.

Maybe it is just a matter of education, or that I missed reading something. I assumed that the port would pull the latest, nightly version, whenever the port was built. Maybe I am supposed to edit the port file myself, to change the pulled version. Maybe you could put a comment in the port file, or in the documentation for Macports explaining the purpose of ports with the "-devel" nomenclature. I suppose if a port file pulled the latest commit every time it was built, it would be nearly impossible to keep track of defects.

(Also, when I browsed Macports, the "devel" category, it did not seem to find gimp2-devel.)

Related to Macports issue #61799 that I just commented on.

Just to explain the context, when I first used the gimp2 port, I found that issue. So I thought, "get the gimp2-devel port, it will have all the latest GIMP commits." But it doesn't, and I later found that there is a commit in GIMP that fixes the issue.

Thanks for your work, I really like Macports, I am not trying to be critical, just to document.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by bootchk (Lloyd Konneker)

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Owner: set to dbevans
Status: newassigned
Summary: port is 4 months stale compared to nightly unstable version of gimp, is missing important GIMP commitsgimp2-devel: update to newer commit
Type: enhancementupdate

comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)

Owner: changed from dbevans to mascguy

comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed: gimp2 and gimp2-devel are now at parity, with both updated to the latest upstream release (2.10.28).

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