Lourens Veen <jsr@xxxxxx> writes: > I realise that it's probably too late already, but dare I say C++? Did > anyone ever even consider this? We discussed C++ on GimpCon and came to the conclusion to use C :) mainly for the following reasons: - Linking: you need to create wrappers to make C programs link to C++ libraries. - Gtk+: It's object model cannot be mapped properly to C++ - And of course the preferences of the developers, sorry ;) > As for the plugin distribution, I think the nicest way would be to have > a plugin manager that would enable you to download plugins from the web > on the fly. Something Linux distributions have too, you just connect to > the server, list the available plugins, let the user select what he/she > wants, download and install them. That would IMHO certainly be the > nicest solution. Yeah, Snorfle (I think) had a quite detailled proposal about this on his Gimp pages but I dont find it any more... :( We're thinking of a Server directory structure which would enable such automatic downloads. Basically a tree like the Debian FTP servers. The client side of this shoulkd be relatively easy to implement (we don't really want Debian-like dependencies, do we? :-) bye, --Mitch
