GIMP on Mac OS X 2.6.5 is Out
I've been a user of GIMP for more than a decade, and it's always been a solid graphics tool - invaluable on some platforms that have nothing else, but even a nice to have on the Mac. There are just some things that it does exceptionally well. But of late, the builds of GIMP for Mac OS X for Leopard have required that you update the X11 package to a more recent build of the XQuartz project - the basis of Apple's X11 package. While I've wanted to stay current with GIMP, I did not want to have a non-standard X11 install. So I was stuck.
Until now. Today I saw that GIMP for Mac OS X 2.6.5 was released, and I decided to download it on the off-chance that it would run on a stock Leopard install. It did! Fantastic!
While it's not going to be something I run all the time, like Acorn, it's something I'm really glad I have at my disposal when I need it. This is wonderful news.