th stable (Re: gimp 2.8.0 rc1, gimp plugins)

[Bartosz Taudul]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Artur Wroblewski
<wrobell at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> 1. DEVEL is for unstable versions - we are talking about RC.
If this Release Candidate is stable, then why is it a Release
Candidate and not the final version? Please tell us.

> 2. the release announcement contains the following statement
>
>    The changes in GIMP 2.8rc1 since 2.7.5 are mostly not
> user-visible. We merely
>    updated the code to work with newer versions of GEGL and babl, fixed GFig
>    rendering issues and used all the translation updates we got to the point.
Oh, so we might as well have 2.7.5 on HEAD? Why not 2.7.1?

> 3.  it does not look like there are major issues with 2.8rc1.
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/0932.html

I am sure 2.4.11 also didn't look like it would have any major issues.

> 4. on top of that, i have tested it with my workflows
Oh wow. Please go away and be back when you test MY workflow and
ensure it works flawlessly.

> therefore, imho, it is worth _starting_ upgrading
Then do it on DEVEL and merge to HEAD when the stable version is
released and stop trolling already.

wolf