Jabali Pragya wrote:

> I have just installed Mdv2008.

Good.

> The version of Gimp came with it
> appears to be rather old, 2.4.0-rc2.

Pardon? Which version do you want?

> I looked for an upgrade but
> found none.

Mandriva has various "testing", "backport", and "cooker" repositories.
Unless you know what you are doing (and you sound like you don't) I
suggest that you do not use them.

> At Gimp's
> site I found that 2.4.1 has already been released

How many days do you think there were between 2.4.0-rc2 and 2.4.1?

If a security problem is found, Mandriva will issue an update.

If there is some functionality still missing from gimp that you
desperately want, then you should join the development team for
gimp - assuming that you are competent.

> and compiled
> versions for Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian are already available. Why
> Mandriva does not have a release version of even 2.4.0 yet ?

Those distributions might have been frozen slightly later than
Mandriva 8.0.

If you really want to upgrade every package every week you are
going to drive yourself crazy, and have a rather chaotic unstable
system.


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Jabali Pragya wrote:

> I have just installed Mdv2008. The version of Gimp came with it appears to
> be rather old, 2.4.0-rc2. I looked for an upgrade but found none. At
> Gimp's
> site I found that 2.4.1 has already been released and compiled versions
> for Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian are already available. Why Mandriva does not
> have a release version of even 2.4.0 yet ?
>
GIMP says what Mandriva has? Offer to make one, or stop complaining about
what is free software anyway. People who do it out of the goodness of
their hearts, like the answer men on this forum, or the compilers of
contributed packages (which are CONTRIBUTED, not Mandriva products) don't
appreciate being told that they aren't working hard enough. Remember what
I said about Smart Questions? Plainly you didn't read it as I suggested.
Your post is one of the things it tells you NEVER to do. Mandriva does not
exist for the sole benefit of Jabali Pragya. I thought that my wife was
the only one with that attitude to the world.

BTW, try a search at http://rpm.pbone.net/ . You can often find packages
there that aren't in the updates yet.

Doug.

Peter D. wrote:

> If there is some functionality still missing from gimp that you
> desperately want, then you should join the development team for
> gimp - assuming that you are competent.
>
>> and compiled
>> versions for Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian are already available. Why
>> Mandriva does not have a release version of even 2.4.0 yet ?
>
> Those distributions might have been frozen slightly later than
> Mandriva 8.0.

Gimp 2.4.1 for debian is only in 'sid' at present.

For those (only a few I would think) that don't know debian 'SID' is
the unstable version and anything can happen :-(



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Neil Ellwood wrote:

> Gimp 2.4.1 for debian is only in 'sid' at present.
>
> For those (only a few I would think) that don't know debian 'SID' is
> the unstable version and anything can happen :-(


Rather like our cooker. Where you can also find gimp 2.4.1

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Thanks to everybody for the responses. May I point out a few things.

Unlike Debian & Ubuntu which are organisations made up of developers who use
their own time and effort to bring together a distro and then distribute it
freely, Mandriva is a commercial organisation which sells it products.

I am not a freeloader. I purchased boxed edition of every version of
Mandrake-Mandriva that I have ever used, starting with version 7.0 (not
2007.0). I could not find a source for the boxed edition of 2008 that's why
I downloaded the powerpack version after paying for it. This is the first
time I used a downloaded ISO and showed my ignorance about what to do with
it in another thread.

As a paid customer shouldn't I expect Mandriva to keep to its advertised
promise to keep the softwares updated ? Gimp 2.4.0 was released on 24th
October - isn't 3 weeks long enough, specially to provide a upgrade from an
unstable to a stable version ? rc versions are by definition not fully
stable, at least its own developers do not believe so.

I have not complained against the gimp developers who use their own time and
effort to provide an excellent software. I admire them and I have made
donations to several such organisations (mozilla, OOo, kde, gimp) whose
software I regularly use. But for Mandriva I am only a paid customer. I
expect their paid developers to do their job.

Whether a question is smart or not is an individual opinion. Some people say
that there are no stupid questions, only stupid replies.

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Jabali Pragya wrote:

> Thanks to everybody for the responses. May I point out a few things.
>
> Unlike Debian & Ubuntu which are organisations made up of developers who
> use their own time and effort to bring together a distro and then
> distribute it freely, Mandriva is a commercial organisation which sells it
> products.
>
> I am not a freeloader. I purchased boxed edition of every version of
> Mandrake-Mandriva that I have ever used, starting with version 7.0 (not
> 2007.0). I could not find a source for the boxed edition of 2008 that's
> why I downloaded the powerpack version after paying for it. This is the
> first time I used a downloaded ISO and showed my ignorance about what to
> do with it in another thread.
>
> As a paid customer shouldn't I expect Mandriva to keep to its advertised
> promise to keep the softwares updated ? Gimp 2.4.0 was released on 24th
> October - isn't 3 weeks long enough, specially to provide a upgrade from
> an unstable to a stable version ? rc versions are by definition not fully
> stable, at least its own developers do not believe so.
>
> I have not complained against the gimp developers who use their own time
> and effort to provide an excellent software. I admire them and I have made
> donations to several such organisations (mozilla, OOo, kde, gimp) whose
> software I regularly use. But for Mandriva I am only a paid customer. I
> expect their paid developers to do their job.

You aren't a freeloader? Download the source and compile it yourself, then
(I guess) offer the RPM to whatever repository will take it. As you're not
a freeloader, you'll be contributing to the community.

> Whether a question is smart or not is an individual opinion. Some people
> say that there are no stupid questions, only stupid replies.

.... I guess that's a stupid reply then.

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Jabali Pragya writes:

> Thanks to everybody for the responses. May I point out a few things.
>
> Unlike Debian & Ubuntu which are organisations made up of developers who use
> their own time and effort to bring together a distro and then distribute it
> freely, Mandriva is a commercial organisation which sells it products.
>
> I am not a freeloader. I purchased boxed edition of every version of
> Mandrake-Mandriva that I have ever used, starting with version 7.0 (not
> 2007.0). I could not find a source for the boxed edition of 2008 that's why
> I downloaded the powerpack version after paying for it. This is the first
> time I used a downloaded ISO and showed my ignorance about what to do with
> it in another thread.
>
> As a paid customer shouldn't I expect Mandriva to keep to its advertised
> promise to keep the softwares updated ?

Where is that promise? I think you need to read it again.

> Gimp 2.4.0 was released on 24th
> October - isn't 3 weeks long enough, specially to provide a upgrade from an
> unstable to a stable version ? rc versions are by definition not fully
> stable, at least its own developers do not believe so.

Are you nuts?
3 weeks? You expect Mandriva to build and test the thousands
of packages in their distro and make every new release available in 3 weeks?

When Mandriva decided to ship rc2 it was because they tested it and
found it stable.

If you file a bug report against Gimp, you might see an update.
Did you file a bug report?

> I have not complained against the gimp developers who use their own time and
> effort to provide an excellent software. I admire them and I have made
> donations to several such organisations (mozilla, OOo, kde, gimp) whose
> software I regularly use. But for Mandriva I am only a paid customer. I
> expect their paid developers to do their job.

You have a funny idea of their job.
If you think something is wrong with the version of gimp installed
in Mandriva 2008, file a bug report.
Otherwise I wouldn't expect a new version.

> Whether a question is smart or not is an individual opinion. Some people say
> that there are no stupid questions, only stupid replies.

Some might say that, but they are wrong.
There are both stupid questions and stupid answers.
Use your head.

You are way off base on Mandriva.
It's an excellent company.
And you can just as easily get a free version of Mandriva
as you can of Ubuntu.

Examine the differences between the powerpack and the free
version.

Jabali Pragya wrote:

>
> As a paid customer shouldn't I expect Mandriva to keep to its
> advertised promise to keep the softwares updated ? Gimp 2.4.0 was
> released on 24th October - isn't 3 weeks long enough, specially to
> provide a upgrade from an unstable to a stable version ? rc versions
> are by definition not fully stable, at least its own developers do
> not believe so.
Give them time. They might have it in cooker but that can have
drawbacks. Debian has only just put it into testing this week, I got
it yesterday.
>
> I have not complained against the gimp developers who use their own
> time and effort to provide an excellent software. I admire them and
> I have made donations to several such organisations (mozilla, OOo,
> kde, gimp) whose software I regularly use. But for Mandriva I am
> only a paid customer. I expect their paid developers to do their
> job.
They are doing their job, keep the production environment as steady as
possible and put new items into places like 'cooker'.




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Neil Ellwood wrote:

> Jabali Pragya wrote:

> Give them time. They might have it in cooker but that can have
> drawbacks. Debian has only just put it into testing this week, I got
> it yesterday.

Funnily enough you can now find it in ......./debug_main/backports now on
the 2008 official mirrors.

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Doug Laidlaw writes:

>Jabali Pragya wrote:

>> I have just installed Mdv2008. The version of Gimp came with it appears to
>> be rather old, 2.4.0-rc2. I looked for an upgrade but found none. At
>> Gimp's
>> site I found that 2.4.1 has already been released and compiled versions
>> for Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian are already available. Why Mandriva does not
>> have a release version of even 2.4.0 yet ?

because they froze 2008 about 5 months ago so that they could test things
before releasing them.

Note that cooker has gimp-2.4.2-1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
Go get it off cooker and try installing it. It may work, it may require
more up to date libraries etc.

Neil Ellwood writes:

>Jabali Pragya wrote:

>>
>> As a paid customer shouldn't I expect Mandriva to keep to its
>> advertised promise to keep the softwares updated ? Gimp 2.4.0 was
>> released on 24th October - isn't 3 weeks long enough, specially to
>> provide a upgrade from an unstable to a stable version ? rc versions

No it certainly is not. They have about 10000 packages in a distro. 3 weeks
means each gets about 2 minutes of testing That is hardly enough time to
even compile it.
Mandriva has never anywhere promised to keep the software updatted. It
promoses to fix security bugs if they are found.

>> are by definition not fully stable, at least its own developers do
>> not believe so.
>Give them time. They might have it in cooker but that can have
>drawbacks. Debian has only just put it into testing this week, I got
>it yesterday.
>>
>> I have not complained against the gimp developers who use their own
>> time and effort to provide an excellent software. I admire them and
>> I have made donations to several such organisations (mozilla, OOo,
>> kde, gimp) whose software I regularly use. But for Mandriva I am
>> only a paid customer. I expect their paid developers to do their
>> job.
>They are doing their job, keep the production environment as steady as
>possible and put new items into places like 'cooker'.




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Unruh wrote:

> No it certainly is not. They have about 10000 packages in a distro. 3
> weeks means each gets about 2 minutes of testing That is hardly enough
> time to even compile it.

I'm sure "Jabali" will be pleased to know that 2.4.0 was full of bugs (yes,
I know... surprise surprise), and is already at version 2.4.2 (as of
yesterday).

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