On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:18:57AM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 03:56:18 -0800
> From: Manish Singh <yosh@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:01:01PM -0500, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>
> > (and as it happens, in 1.1 the Gimp library directory is
> > /usr/local/lib/gimp/1.1, and so forth. Not very friendly to a
> > version-agnostic plugin.)
>
> Well, 1.0 and 1.1 plugins are incompatible at the binary and protocol
> level.
>
> Right, but they can be made compatible at the source level with a very
> small amount of #ifdef'age. It's important for build scripts.
gimptool --install-admin-bin foo-plugin
> > What do you need exactly? We could extend gimptool to provide values
> > for the whole gamut of autoconf installation path variables...
> >
> > The print plugin will at some point have auxiliary files. I'm
> > thinking of moving the printer descriptions out of the plugin (where
> > they're compiled into presently) and into some kind of text file
> > describing their capabilities, and I want somewhere to put those
> > files.
>
> Like, say, $(datadir) (typically ${prefix}/share) ?
>
> That's the right idea, although /usr/local/share isn't specific enough
> -- presumably it's more like /usr/local/share/gimp/plugindata or some
> such.
So gimptool could provide a $(gimpdatadir) (like ${prefix}/share/gimp) and
you'd go from there?
-Yosh
