Cool stuff happening in packaging world: we are also setting up procedures and automated scripts to crop splash images as macOS DMG background and Windows installer side image. This adds some coolness and consistency to our packages.
Here are some cool examples featuring the upcoming #GIMP 3.2 RC3 splash (which may or may not become the final 3.2 splash).
This is work mainly led by Bruno, our hero packager in the last few years!
@GIMP Packages for the common Linux distros when?
@taschenorakel We have Flatpak, AppImage and Snap packages.
And I believe our software is already available in every Linux distribution repositories in other formats (which is distributions' packagers responsibility). 😄
In any case, we are never against new packages if one cares enough to contribute scripts for our CI pipelines, then stay around to maintain these across the years. (packages are not a "patch welcome" only kind of changes; requires bigger involvement and long-term effort).
@GIMP Flatpak, AppImage, Snap are no packaging. They rather are desease doing serious harm to the ecosystem by wasting resources, being terrible in terms of security and integration, while at the same time preventing proper packaging: "See, why bother? Use our shitpack".
By promoting them you actively prevent your code reaching users. Just as a single example: The very popular Mint distribution still ships some anciencient GIMP 2 because of your shitpack nonsense.
