On Nov 17, 2007, at 11:50 PM, Victor Domingos wrote:

I recently upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard, which seems to be just great and almost one month later there are no signs of a compatible GIMP binary coming (I need a PPC version, because I use a PowerBook G4).

Just to make things worse, the GIMP port in MacPorts seems not to work properly. I used to have both the old GIMP.app and the latest MacPorts gimp-dev version running, and now I simply cannot use GIMP.

I am getting kind of desperate :(

I am teaching some students how to use GIMP and now I am not able to try the exercises at home, before the classes. Does anyone have a good news to me (is it coming, is it??).

By the way, is it that difficult to build a PPC version at the same time we build an Intel one? Supposedly, Apple gave developers the means to build both at once ("Universal Binaries"), right? What is happening, then?

Anyway, I now the team is working hard on GIMP, and I thank you for your great work.

Best regards, Victor Domingos
(sadly, not GIMPing right now, in a sunny Portugal...)

I suggest you update your macports (selfupdate) and sync your ports and install the gimp2 port. I am running gimp 2.4.1 from macports (via the gimp2 port) and all is well. Also, you will probably need to update your X11 - see here: http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin

The latest version is 1.2a11. Ben Byer (XDarwin developer) has been doing terrific work getting things improved for us :) Lastly, if you don't mind the extra inbox items you might want to subscribe to the x11-users list (somewhere on lists.apple.com there ought to be a link)

Good luck and happy GIMPing :)

--Mike H

Hi,

There is a prebuild GIMP.app for download at wilber-loves-apple.org that also works on Leo. It might be x86 only by now, but give the folks a try

Greetings lexA

Am 18.11.2007 um 05:50 schrieb Victor Domingos :

I recently upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard, which seems to be just great and almost one month later there are no signs of a compatible GIMP binary coming (I need a PPC version, because I use a PowerBook G4).

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 23:31 +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote:

There is a prebuild GIMP.app for download at wilber-loves-apple.org that also works on Leo. It might be x86 only by now, but give the folks a try

Shouldn't we link to this site then instead of the outdated gimp.app package on sourceforget.net?

Sven

We indeed should and there might even be a bugzilla entry for the gimp-web project. If I would finally find some time to spend for this, I'd love to provide a patch for the Mac and the OS X download pages. Anyways, if somebody else is faster than me...

lexA

2007/11/20, Sven Neumann :

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 23:31 +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote:

There is a prebuild GIMP.app for download at wilber-loves-apple.org that also works on Leo. It might be x86 only by now, but give the folks a try

Shouldn't we link to this site then instead of the outdated gimp.app package on sourceforget.net?

Sven

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 06:34 +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote:

We indeed should and there might even be a bugzilla entry for the gimp-web project. If I would finally find some time to spend for this, I'd love to provide a patch for the Mac and the OS X download pages. Anyways, if somebody else is faster than me...

I've already done it last night. Just not sure why the webserver hasn't picked up the latest changes from SVN yet. But I am sure this will be solved over the day...

Sven