what happened to media-gfx/gmic?

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:31 am Post subject: what happened to media-gfx/gmic?

So, because the GIMP has recently released, at long last, version 3, I'm finding that media-gfx/gmic (which I have from the stefantalpalaru overlay, but which is not listed among the portage overlays at zugaina) no longer emerges. It's built against gimp-2, so understandable, but this raises the next question: why isn't gmic in the main portage repository in the first place? It appears to be an image-conversion library, and it's required by flowblade (an excellent video editor that is *also* tragically not in portage).

I see bugreports (like this one) referring to much older versions, so I assume it was in the main portage tree at one point. Was it simply pulled for lack of interest?

Thanks for the clarification.

EE

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2951

https://bugs.gentoo.org/916289

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:17 am Post subject:

Ah, so that was the problem. Alas! I guess I'll have to hope that the stefantalpalaru overlay updates the package to work against gimp-3. Or hope that upstream sorts out their issues so it can get put back in main portage. Anyway, thanks for the clarification.

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ExecutorElassus · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 12:39 pm Post subject:

Ah, whoops, so there's another out-of-date part of my setup. Yes, I use his overlay, exclusively for electricsheep and flowblade. I'll check my repository config to see if I'm using his directly.

Cheers,

EE

iandoug · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:48 pm Post subject:

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iandoug · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 1:46 pm Post subject:

Message from Stefan, posted with permission.

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That Gimp plugin is part of "gmic-qt" - a third-party repository that became abandoned after its owner died:
https://github.com/c-koi/gmic-qt

It was forked by the gmic developer, in an attempt to continue maintenance: https://github.com/GreycLab/gmic-qt

Unfortunately, the gmic developer is terrible at maintenance and he simply gave up tagging new gmic-qt versions.
Expecting him to port the Gimp-2 plugin to Gimp-3 is asking too much, so I kept an old gmic-3.5.0 with gmic-qt,
where you have to use Gimp-2 if you want the Gimp plugin, and a new gmic-3.5.2 without gmic-qt altogether.

So pick your poison.

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Cheers, Ian
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