On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:59:26 +0200 Carmelo DrRaw via gimp-developer-list wrote:

Dear all,

recently I have done additional work on the GIMP AppImage packages, trying to improve the compatibility with various linux distributions and improving the building/packaging scripts.

In a nutshell: * I have moved the build environment to CentOS 7, which is based on glibc 2.17
* the whole appimage creation process now runs through a single bash script that can be executed inside a docker container. This means that the automated integration, now based on Travis CI, can be easily moved to any other system that supports Docker * the appimage packages are now built in two flavours: one “bare” package that only provides GIMP, and a “full-featured” package that also contains few popular and useful plug-ins (including G’MIC-Qt)

The 2.10.7 packages are available for download from here: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous

Running the AppImages is very simple: * download the package
* make it executable via
chmod u+x
* run the package as any other Linux executable

Thanks for doing all this. Having the latest-and-greatest code easily available as an AppImage is really awesome :)

A note to the developers: the current 2.10.x branch requires a quite recent version of Glib, but only due to the use of a single function in app/gui/splash.c, and only for diagnostics purposes. To circumvent the problem and be able to use the older Glib version available on CentOS 7, I am applying the following patch: https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch

Is that OK?

This has already been fixed in the gimp-2-10 branch (master requires a newer GLib version). See commit
499a8962b326823bdf12936960798f802c79f283.

-- Ell

Hi!

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:03 PM Carmelo DrRaw via gimp-developer-list < gimp-developer-list@gnome.org> wrote:

Hi!

On 10 Sep 2018, at 18:28, Ell wrote:

A note to the developers: the current 2.10.x branch requires a quite recent version of Glib, but only due to the use of a single function in app/gui/splash.c, and only for diagnostics purposes. To circumvent the problem and be able to use the older Glib version available on CentOS 7, I am applying the following patch:

https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch

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https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/blob/master/gimp-glib-splash.patch

Is that OK?

This has already been fixed in the gimp-2-10 branch (master requires a newer GLib version). See commit
499a8962b326823bdf12936960798f802c79f283.

Excellent! The new Glib requirement is one of the reasons preventing me to provide an AppImage for the master branch… I need to go through the compilation of Glib from sources, and see if there are no showstoppers on CentOS 7.

Also at some point, we should resume discussing making your package upstream. It's hard to make time to discuss this, but this is probably needed. Moreover lately the maintainer of the Snap package approached us to make it upstream as well. So I thought this is the opportunity to discuss about AppImage as well.

Jehan

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 8:54 AM Carmelo DrRaw wrote:

Hi Jehan,

On 16 Sep 2018, at 21:55, Jehan Pagès wrote:

Hi!

Also at some point, we should resume discussing making your package upstream. It's hard to make time to discuss this, but this is probably needed. Moreover lately the maintainer of the Snap package approached us to make it upstream as well. So I thought this is the opportunity to discuss about AppImage as well.

Would it be ok to continue the discussion in the corresponding GitHub issue?
https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/issues/9

Of course. I wrote a comment there actually immediately after my previous email. ;-)

Jehan

Andrea

Jehan

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