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Film Gimp's audience is the motion picture industry. Studios use Linux, Irix, Windows, Macintosh, and other operating systems. It is unusual to find a studio using a single operating system. Having Film Gimp limited to Linux and Irix is inconvenient. Users want be able to use the same tools on any machine.
Film Gimp has always run on Linux and SGI IRIX. Film Gimp runs on Alpha, Mac/XDarwin, FreeBSD, Solaris, IA64, S390, HP-UX, and soon Windows and Mac/Aqua.
We are porting GTK+ 1.2 to Mac/Aqua. The GTK+OSX project will enable building Mac Film Gimp Aqua, a version with native Macintosh support.
The Windows release was scheduled for December 2002, but the Macintosh team's success delivering their Film Gimp port six month's ahead of schedule changed that. Releasing Mac and Windows both in December wasn't feasible. Windows work had to be interrupted to handle Macintosh release issues and publicity. The Windows Film Gimp port had first begun running (without plug-ins) on Windows 2000 on November 25, 2002. But, the Windows release schedule slipped to January, and now February. Some are feeling impatient for the Windows release.
A Film Gimp Macintosh OS X port was discussed, and eventually a Mac porting team emerged consisting of Andy Prock, Nathan Wilson, and Karl Rashe. Mac Film Gimp is a Fink-based release, not a native Mac OS X port. The Mac port had its first success running on November 25, 2002. Mac Film Gimp was originally scheduled for release later in 2003, but it was ready ahead of schedule. The first Film Gimp version to support Macintosh is 0.10, released December 3, 2002. Read the press release.
A Mac Quartz version of Film Gimp is being planned for Q4 2003.
Incidentally, there is a Mac Gimp port. Mac OS X is based upon FreeBSD. Here are some Unix Incompatibility Notes that can be helpful when porting between Unix systems. And, here's the Apple Carbon Porting Guide and Moving Your Code to Mac OS X. Also see, "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" from O'Reilly.
The Mac Film Gimp port solved most issues. A ports package needs to be done.
Fixing this cleared the way to meet Debian requirement to be included in Woody.