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CinePaint: The GIMP Goes Hollywood (O'ReillyNet)
O'ReillyNet
examines CinePaint. "CinePaint started as a development version
of The GIMP, sponsored by the film industry in 1998. The GIMP evolved in a
different direction, though, and The GIMP team abandoned the code to
languish in CVS. As an example of what CinePaint developers call the
"Lazarus effect," useful open source projects never need to die. Though
Film GIMP never saw a public release, the current CinePaint team came
together, resurrecting and renaming the project. Development continues to
this day."
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Lazarus effect... Posted Apr 30, 2004 20:33 UTC (Fri) by taniwha (guest, #49) [Link] Yes, that's one of the beauties of CVS (or any halfway decent revision control system (subversion evangelists etc pipe down:), for that matter): once code has been committed to the repository, it will (in theory, anyway, there are ways) never die, even if it's backed out 5 seconds later. You can even "delete" dropped features from the code without them really dieing thanks to CVS' history. It just takes somebody having the gumption to go through the revival ritual(s) (using CVS' merging feature does seem to require blood and virgins, etc:).Kind of makes me think of vampires (recently watched a vampire anime series, so maybe "Alucard" would work too:)
Lazarus effect... Posted May 2, 2004 7:54 UTC (Sun) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link] Actually, it is quite easy to permanently delete things with CVS. You use the cvs admin -o command.
Interesting market Posted May 1, 2004 12:51 UTC (Sat) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link] I always thought that a market like this (few users with specialized needs and big budgets) will be for proprietary or in-house software. It's quite strange to see competing companies like ILM, DreamWorks and Sony contributing to the same software.
Interesting market Posted May 1, 2004 22:18 UTC (Sat) by jae (guest, #2369) [Link] Since the production studios are not in competition in the SW arena,why shouldn't they not work together? And proprietary software... well, few users is bad. Big budgets is good...
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