12-26-2024, 10:55 AM
(12-25-2024, 09:14 PM)Tas_mania Wrote: What surprised me about Gimp3 is that Linux, Windows and OSX issues are all being worked on in parallel.
Consider issue 12559?
The issue is caused by an antivirus product on Win and people are wondering why Gimp3 is taking years to finish? I don't think it's even finishable because MacOSX, Win and Linux are updating constantly.
Gimp must be needed by the makers of closed-source software to prop-up their consumer offerings. I kind of predicted this during 2024. I think Gimp3's problems are part of a broader issue. Neijuan is the Chinese term for “involution”, a concept from sociology that refers to a society that can no longer evolve, no matter how hard it tries.
This looks like a random false hit. Methinks it will be shrugged off by the developers, because random minor changes in the source code are likely to make the next build not trigger that again.
The problem with Gimp is there are not that many developers and there is currently only one very active (Jehan, 30% of the commits, the new one, cymkstudent, at 10%...), and they are currently a bit more focused on adding function than on making sure that everything works (for their defense, I see plenty of people using the RC and not that many people reporting bugs, while this is the purpose of RCs...).