Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha
On Saturday 23 July 2016 09:47:38 David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 23 Jul 2016 at 06:45:35 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 July 2016 05:01:37 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Saturday 23 July 2016 02:36:46 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Very frustrating that
> > > > apparently no one on this list is enough smarter about this that
> > > > they can assist me.
> > >
> > > Is there a GIMP list, and have you tried it??
> >
> > You are responding to a cross-post that I made to the debian list in
> > the odd chance that in my flailing about, my cane may come in
> > contact with a skull that can do something about gimp because the
> > gimp docs distributed for wheezy are so old and out of date they
> > won't run in the context mode. My way of perhaps getting a packagers
> > attention to just how worthless it is to distribute a gimp that has
> > had hundreds of bug fixes since 2.8.2, its now up to 2.8.19, and
> > shipping 2.8.2 along with the docs for 2.6.1!
>
> The "totally broken tool" is part of the previous stable Debian
> distribution called wheezy. It caused many to throw themselves under
> the train (the one without a conductor) when they saw how much
> worthless software was being distributed. In fact it makes you
> wonder how anybody got any work done with computers at all, with
> systems so outdated and containing so many bugs.
>
> And when they got stuck, they even had to open a book to get help,
> or use this new-fangled tool called AltaVista on the interweb to
> find odd scraps of information like HOWTOs and READMEs. Why didn't
> they come to corporate seminars like everyone else. There were always
> plenty of COBOL programmers to take questions, and mail you an answer
> within a week or two. Oh, dress code, you say. Well, you could write
> to the Computer Weekly letters column. Oh, non-disclosure, you say...
>
> C'mon Gene, you should know the score by now.
> Unstable, or testing → frozen → stable → oldstable. Pick your poison.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
My point David, is that wheezy, aka old stable, everything should Just
Work(TM) even if it is not the bleeding edge, it should work as
advertised, and this is a very poor example of that. Now to unpack the
2.8.2 docs I just downloaded and put them in place. That might help a
whole bunch. We'll see shortly.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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