Star GIMP 2.6.0 Released
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 1st Oct 2008 22:28 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces The GIMP Project has released GIMP 2.6.0. Among some UI-based changes and additional fixes, it comes the long promised integration of the GEGL library. The promise of 16 bit per-pixel non-destructive editing goes back to 2002, but it's at last here. This means that GIMP is now ready for prosumer (and in some cases even professional) photographer's usage, and this can only be big news and a big win for the F/OSS movement. GEGL will also help in future releases with proper support of CMYK. UPDATE: I guess things are not as good as the release notes want us to think. GEGL was turned "on" in the Color menu as per instructions, but I still got a no-support message for high depth TIFF pictures. If GIMP can't read existing 16bpp pictures, the feature I earlier gave them so much credit for, is useless.
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RE[3]: high bit depth problem?
by lemur2 on Thu 2nd Oct 2008 01:45 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: high bit depth problem?"
lemur2
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"even though this is called 2.6.0 that doesn't mean that Gimp 2.6 is here.
Huh? 2.6.0 is a (subversion of) 2.6 by definition. And if that's not enough, then how about all the 2.6:s sprinkled around everywhere (e.g., in the release notes of 2.6.0 and in the splash window)? Or is there some weird, hidden meaning in what you wrote that I just don't get? "

I think the "joke" is a reference to the release of KDE 4.0 when it wasn't really very near being a feature complete implementation of KDE4.

There is some parallel to justify this ... for example the article mentions that at this time of release of GIMP 2.6.0, the underlying GEGL engine doesn't proplerly support cmyk as yet. Full cmyk support will be a feature of GIMP 2.6.+something.

This is the way of it with free software, however. "Release early, release often" is the catchcry.

This is however a very different paradigm than the release of commercial software, where you are trying to charge people real money to buy a software application, and then charge them again when they want to upgrade to a newer version. In that scenario, "release early, release often" (with early releases not being feature complete) actually would equate to "rip-off".

However, the point is that the GIMP program, like KDE4, is not commercial software, it is free software. Enjoy the new features now for no charge, and get an even more complete feature set as they are developed a bit later on, also for no charge.

So the intended sarcasm rather misses the point, wouldn't you say?

KDE 4.1.1 is out now, and it is quite stable and now has feature parity (more or less) with KDE 3.5.x.

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