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Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X

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Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X Mikael Ståldal 10 Nov 20:33
  Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Nov 21:00
   Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X Ken Springer 10 Nov 21:16
   Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X Mikael Ståldal 10 Nov 21:21
    Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Nov 21:39
Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X Mikael Ståldal 11 Nov 08:29
Mikael Ståldal
2011-11-10 20:33:53 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X

On the official GIMP homepage, you can read:

"The GIMP team doesn't provide official Mac binaries."

and

"The GIMP team doesn't officially provide any Windows binaries."

I think that the GIMP team should provide official binaries for Windows and MacOS X. I believe that it would attract more users to GIMP, and make it appear as a more serious alternative to e.g. Photoshop.

This doesn't need to involve much work, perhaps you can get away with just change the text on the homepage and declare the Windows and MacOS X packages you already link to as official.

(I do not need this myself since I run Linux.)

Alexandre Prokoudine
2011-11-10 21:00:33 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Mikael St

Ken Springer
2011-11-10 21:16:32 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X

On 11/10/11 2:00 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Mikael St

Mikael Ståldal
2011-11-10 21:21:22 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X

On 2011-11-10 22:00, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

I don't think we can get away with just that. We really do not provide binaries. It's a (much appreciated) 3rd party effort. OTOH, I do see your point, and hopefully at some point we'll get there.

Perhaps you can invite these 3rd parties to become part of the GIMP team?

BTW, it seems like Inkscape (which I guess is comparable to GIMP) do provide official binaries for Windows and MacOS X.

Alexandre Prokoudine
2011-11-10 21:39:52 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Mikael St

Mikael Ståldal
2011-11-11 08:29:30 UTC (about 13 years ago)

Official binaries for Windows and MacOS X

On 2011-11-10 23:22, Ken Springer wrote:

BTW, it seems like Inkscape (which I guess is comparable to GIMP) do provide official binaries for Windows and MacOS X.

Gimp is pixel based, Inkscape is vector based. IE, Photoshop vs.. Corel Draw.

I am aware of that. But the projects are comparable in the sense that both are open source projects building graphics applications using GTK+ primarly targeted to Linux, but also ported to Windows and MacOS X. Both of them also supports drawing tablets.

Both are also potential alternatives to (different) apps from Adobe on Windows and MacOS X.