Krita portable.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tue, 1 May 2012, Simon Legrand wrote:

> Hi. Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the welcoming message.
>
> There is in fact a very large/desperate need for a Linux photoshop
> replacement in the world of VFX. I would very much doubt that Krita
> hasn't been used already quite a bit in some of the larger studios. I
> know I have many times for all sorts of purposes. When I didn't have a
> windows machine with photoshop or when I couldn't be bothered firing
> it up, I very often used Gimp and Krita. And I'm not alone.
>
> Right now it's actually hard for us to get sys-admins to get off their
> bums and install the latest and greatest. Most studios are constrained
> to Centos 5 by Autodesk and the Foundry who only offer support on
> Redhat systems. Most of studios use centos because it's free redhat,
> so they get the free part to install on their 40k core + render farms
> and they also get support from Autodicks. I mean Autode$k.
>
> If you truly want Krita used in films I can promise you that if it
> appears in the centos 5 and up repos it will be used more and more by
> very large studios. And I'll be happy to report my own use of it on
> films as well.

CentOS is weird, though, even for someone who's been using Linux since 
1993 or so...

I saw this message on boot, after which booting hung for a while, making 
me reach out to the panic button

Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissable range.

:-)

Anyway, that's just to show that we're entering an unknown territory here.

Which additional/external repositories (from 
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) are okay to use 
when creating a package?

I noticed that out of the box, there's no git and so on, and that the 
cmake version is pretty outdated.

Would a standalone tgz package of Krita be enough? I think we can create 
that. Getting an rpm into one of the extra repos might be trickier, we 
need to find a volunteer/sponsorship for that.


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Boudewijn Rempt