recommend distro / newest Gimp / gimp-perl support ? : Graphics

+ I foolishly has asked several days ago, if anyone was using
gimp-perl with opensuse... but it seems that distribution has
rather deliberately excluded any and all support files for this
branch of Gimp... so... I will now ask:

...could anyone suggest a newer Linux distribution known to
include Gimp 2.3+ /and/ directly support gimp-perl functioning as
well ?
(this is to say... all gimp files already on a CD set).
Debian, I know, always includes these, but I'm presently after a
smaller
distro... maybe Im asking for the impossible ? Gimp-perl may be
considered "additional ware", being included only on larger
distros...
though I will say, SuSE-Pro always supported it, with 4 or 5 disks
(this
was before the opensuse nonsense happened).

Really, what might be nice for situations like this is a big
downloadable
gimp package with basically all the necessary support files... never
have seen
such a thing, so I wont ask where to get it :-)

distro suggestions anyone ? Thanks for reading !

OOPS...typo... of course I meant:

+ I foolishly [had] asked several days ago...

On 18 Apr., 00:22, "stuse...@hotmail.com" <stuse...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> ...could anyone suggest a newer Linux distribution known to
> include Gimp 2.3+ /and/ directly support gimp-perl functioning as
> well ?

Hm, as you are using (Open)SUSE... I've seen several examples of
people running up-to-date software on SUSE by using third-party
apt4rpm repositories (IIRC there are a few bigger ones which are known
to have high-quality packages).

Another possibility would be to choose a distro which does make it
easy to build the latest GIMP - either development releases or from
SVN (I'd recommend the latter - if you can do it, why bother with
outdated stuff?). Ubuntu Feisty should do it, maybe even Edgy (not
sure about the Glib version). And, of course, Debian Sid, the GIMP
developer's platform of choice.

Debian does also ship libgimp-perl.


HTH,
Michael