08.10.2008 Roadmap to nowhere
Now GIMP 2.6 is out and people are wondering when packages will be out. Unfortunately, things are not going very well at Wilber-Loves-Apple. What used to be a community has been maintained by a single individual (me) for quite some time now, after everyone disappeared, leaving the project at a lack of packagers and contributors. At the same time, my amount of free time has diminished progressively.
Furthermore, GIMP for mac projects are being multiplicated. Apart from WLA, there also is
Gimp.app, not counting commercial project
macgimp and even
macports - but, last but not least least, the all-new
gimponosx project that was basically created as a result of disagreements and misunderstandings between Simone (who wrote most of our build instructions) and me. I am not necessarly criticizing her for this,
however since she is now offering GIMP 2.6, and since our community is being reduced to a single individual who doesn't have the time to do it properly anymore, Wilber-Loves-Apple has very little use anymore.
For all the details of this rather sad story see
this forum thread.
I hope someone will continue bringing GIMP to the mac. I may still get involved but not anymore as project leader.
I wish good luck to all of those that will make it still possible for GIMP to run on mac in the future.
--Auria