On Wednesday, 17 Jan 2001, Nick Lamb wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:42:23AM +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > (No, I don't know why duplicate PDB procedures cause strange errors > > and not just warnings. Anyway, GIMP seems to handle this situation > > better in the current gimp-1-2.) > > It's a long standing bug in Gimp. I would really like to change the name > of one of my plug-ins, but this bug prevents that (it would crash Gimp) > It's possible, but unlikely that it's actually fixed in 1.2.0, but > generally people poke inside the PDB, throw up, tweak something until > the crash that annoyed them stops and go home. > I don't blame them, and I wouldn't volunteer to re-write its hairy > logic, so I've stopped whining about it. (unless this counts :) ) I fixed a number of duplicate-name related leaks and memory trampling and other misc bugs in the PDB code a while back. I thought I'd caught most problems with duplicate names. If there are still problems remaining, then it would be good to know. Austin
