I was downloading the latest version of GIMP the other day and thought it was rather large so I checked the various version I’ve downloaded over the years and… wow. Here’s a summary:
Over 15 years GIMP’s installer (the Windows one anyway but other platforms seem similar) has ballooned to nearly 20 times its size. What explains this enormous increase? Even with a larger graphics library and a ton of new features I might have expected it to double of triple in size at the most. Is something very inefficient being done here?
In my 2.10 Linux install, there are 100MB of “non-code”: half are resources such as Gimp’s own icons and brushes, patterns, palettes, and such, and the other half is translations.
This said, between 2.6 and 2.10 my hard disks size has grown 20 times and my network speed 200 times… 340MB? That’s 25-30 pictures from my latest camera.
A look at the last of the Gimp 2.8 and the current Gimp 2.10 I wonder how many new users go for the customize option ?
There is a more-than 3 times size increase in the core files, surprising is the “legacy” 32 bit plugin support. If you do not need translations, a bit of disk saved.
Historically, GIMP is more like the root of GNOME’s family tree
“They were indeed what was known as ‘old money’, which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.”
