-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 January 2002 20:39, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > <snip> > if I'm informed correctly someone is already working on a plug-in manager > but I'd like him to speak up here on himself. If you're reading this, yes, please do so. That'll save me another 10k of text :). > > So, to be somewhate less vague and more specific: > > > > What's the difference between a tool and a plugin, on the technical side? > > > > Is there any difference at all or is it all in the GUI? > > at least with the current design there is tremendous difference: a tool > is just a function in the gimp core while a plug-in is a separate process. > A tool can do just everything, a plug-in is limited to the libgimp API. Ah, right. So distributing tools through the plug-in manager is nonsense then. Thanks. Lourens PS: no need to CC, I'm on the list - -- GPG public key: http://home.student.utwente.nl/l.e.veen/lourens.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8RIqOvmNyqZHWDvURAlJzAKCIAzXLYOqXeGUJY8Pe03DcNhJO5gCglN71 Sv5EsYnVVozUt76RWV48JSY= =K9jL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
