On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 10:35:35PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 08:48:55PM +0000, Seth Golub <seth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why would I spend time working on something without having some > > expectation that it wouldn't just get thrown away? I have no idea > > whether the folks in charge of this piece want this feature. If not, > > it doesn't matter whether I implement it; I'd just be wasting my time. > > Making some kind of plug-in installation manager is currently in the > planning phase. > > If you would help coding such a thing (preferably in C + gtk+), that would > be great! > > OTOH, if you can code and just want a minimal install, why not just hack > the lines out of configure.in that build the extra plug-ins you don't > want? Removing these is _exactly_ the same amount of work as selecting > which plug-ins you want and which you don't want. Or just skip the toplevel plug-in dir, and make a little shell script to install the plugins you want. With the 1.1.x series, you can simply to "make GIMP_PLUGINS=" to skip. Each plugin has it's own makefile target which you can call individually. -Yosh
