What’s next for CinePaint
By Robin Rowe
SHEFFIELD, UK (CinePaint.org) 2013/12/1 – I’ve been working on the development of a major online game server, nothing to do with CinePaint. My work life has been an astounding amount of crazy hours that were promised to ease up a year ago.
I still have big plans for CinePaint, plans I look forward to accomplishing in the coming year.
CinePaint’s build system complexity and UI bugs have long been our bane. First, I will merge the FLTK interface code from the experimental Glasgow branch with the existing codebase. That will cut down the overall complexity (less lines of code for the same functionality) and eliminate difficult to track down bugs in the legacy UI code. After that, I can get back to a frequent release tempo with support for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
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Linux game server design seminar at Sheffiend, England
By Robin Rowe
SHEFFIELD, UK (CinePaint.org) 2013/12/1 – Game developers and Linux software developers may be interested to attend my free seminar. Details below.
Games are the hot sector for start-ups in entertainment. The fastest growing game in 2012 reached 50 million downloads in just 50 days. Game clients are typically small programs written in iOS or Android for running on phones, but servers must scale and be resilient. Massively multi-user servers are not easy to get right, as we have seen recently with the Obamacare server crisis. We’ll discuss multi-player game server design, the challenges, the obstacles and solutions.
The Department of Computing Seminar Series
Dec. 4th, 2013, 1pm-2pm
Cantor Building
Sheffield Hallam University
153 Arundel Street
Sheffield S1 2NU
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How-to for building CinePaint on CentOS O.S. from CVS or source tarball
By Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (CinePaint.org) 2013/5/8 – Release 1.0-4 builds on CentOS/RHEL 6.4. Tarball and i686 rpm at SourceForge. I dropped the 1.3 and 1.2 releases because make rpm prefers 1.0-4 notation.
Here are notes on desktop CentOS operating system installation. Once we have that installed we will want to access SourceForge CVS. There are two ways to do that, anonymous and read-write (if you are a member of the CinePaint developer team).
Anonymous CVS
$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cinepaint.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cinepaint login
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cinepaint.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cinepaint co -P cinepaint-project
Read-Write CVS
$ export CVS_RSH=ssh
$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:USERNAME@cinepaint.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cinepaint checkout cinepaint-project
SSH Identity Keys
Developers who don’t want to enter their password over and over whenever making a CVS change will need an identity key.
$ ssh-keygen -C your@email.address
This creates the files .identity and identity.pub in your .ssh directory. If you use more than one computer, you’ll to copy these files to each one. Next, copy the pub file to SF.
$ scp .ssh/identity.pub username@lfc.sourceforge.net:identity.pub
Next, ssh to SF and rename file.
$ ssh -l username lfc.sourceforge.net
$ mv identity.pub .ssh/authorized_keys
Logout and ssh again. You shouldn’t be asked for a password.
Building CinePaint
Install necessary developer libraries first.
# yum install lcms-devel libtiff-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel openexr-devel fltk-devel gutenprint-devel libXmu-devel
$ cd cinepaint-project/cinepaint
$ sh autogen.sh
$ sh configure.sh
=================================================================
Configuration Results
GTK CinePaint Version 1.0.0
General dependencies:
Gtk2 toolkit yes 2.18.9
DnD support yes X11/Xmu
littleCMS yes lcms 1.19
Oyranos no
Plug-ins with external dependencies:
Python plug-in: yes python2.6
OpenEXR plug-in: yes OpenEXR 1.6.1
Tiff plug-in: yes
PNG plug-in: yes libpng 1.2.49
Jpeg plug-in: yes
Print plug-in: yes Gutenprint 5.2.5
FLTK dependent plug-ins: yes bracketing_to_hdr collect pdf
Thread dependent plug-ins: yes icc_examin
Flex dependent plug-ins: yes iol
=================================================================
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Updating CentOS and RedHat support for CinePaint
by Robin Rowe
Robin Rowe at the Globe Theatre
HOLLYWOOD, CA (CinePaint.org) 2013/3/26 – I’m back after two weeks in London. What a great city! I saw performances of Book of Mormon, Singin in the Rain, and went on tours of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and of the Benjamin Franklin House. I’ll be back in the UK in November to speak in Sheffield. Haven’t nailed down exactly when or what that talk will be yet, probably on game programming.
I got this note from a CinePaint fan:
Can someone put CinePaint to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for me? I had to migrate from Fedora 18 as it lost all usability. CinePaint can’t be found in any of the repositories.
Yes, CinePaint is long overdue for an rpm update. I’m downloading CentOS 6.4 now to load into VMWare. Will have an update next week.
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Locate My Name maps names across countries and regions
By Robin Rowe
HOLLYWOOD, CA (CinePaint.org) 2013/3/23 – CinePaint welcomes Locate My Name as a sponsor. At www.locatemyname.com you search on a name and it shows how it’s distributed across the country and the world. Charts, statistics and tops are available. Useful for finding origins of names, curiosity, entertainment and genealogy research.
Currently the USA, Canada, France, Italy, Romania, UK are fully covered. The rest of Europe and parts of South America are partially covered. Locate My Name says they’re about to add data for Australia, Asia and African countries.
Check out your name for free at www.locatemyname.com.
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