Hi, On 14 Dec 2000, Sven Neumann wrote: > What's wrong with letting the distributors do their job and let them > take care of creating binary packages? I doubt we have the possibilities > to support all the various platforms out there. By releasing seperate > tarballs we'd make it very esay for distributors to package plug-ins. Nothing, that the way it sould be, however installing binary packages mostly require root access. Still it would be nice to give Joe user the posiblity to build/install plugins in his ~/.gimp/ . This way he is a little more independ of his distributins maintainers &| root. I gues with the modern auto-*-utils the build process sould work in 90% of the cases, if not he is unluky and has to wait. A litle "Sorry I can't figure out how to build this plugin on your system" dialog could explain things. A automagic bug report to the pluging maintainer, simple dependicy file and know-to-work-on (uname -a ?) are nice options. Even a clever naming scheme and prefered server thingy could first look at the distro directories and see if its already availble as binary. Maybe this is not core-gimp and sould be a plugin it self... [RicV]
