On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:55:20 -0700 (MST), "Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >I'm curious why any new plug-ins should be added to the core *at >all*. Gimp's distribution is fairly large as it is. Isn't it >getting time to limit additional plug-ins to the core distribution to >plug-ins which are considered "vital" in some way? Even some estoric >file plug-ins need not necessarily be included with the core package. >Throwing in the kitchen sink is what's starting to bloat some Linux >distros. I agree entirely. It is my considered position that the first thing we should with 1.3 is remove all, or virtually all, of the plug-ins from the standard distribution. Moving them to the gimp-plug-in repository on sourceforge seems practical. All we need to do is develop a good installer tool before 1.4 rolls, which will probably be sometime in 2002. Kelly
