Marc Lehmann spontaneously blurts out: > > Hmm... sounds sensible. Unless somebody comes up with something better > I'll start it in a week or so. > > My idea is to copy the full cvs tree of gimp to (lets call it gimpforge) > and give any intersted plug-in author write access. > > Updates from the gimp-cvs-tree/{libgimp,app,tools...} to gimpforge should > be automatic and regular, while updates in the other direction should be > enabled for specific files (plug-ins/common/snoise.c) or subdirectories > (e.g. plug-ins/perl). > > That will effectively implement some kind of access-model, and it will > (hopefully) make it possible to *select* a fileset for distribution. > I guess I wasn't advocating moving the whole tree over, just the plug-ins. I don't know anything about the GIMP development process, or the internal intrigue that seems to surface from time to time, so I can't ascertain whether the whole thing should move. -Dean Johnson Tool Hooligan Cluster Admin Tools & Jessie Project Silicon Graphics Inc. Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated" -- unknown ----------------------------------------------------------------------------