On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:55:58 -0400, "Carol Spears" <cspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2002-04-11 at 1255.35 +0200, David Neary typed this mail: > > Following on from the other plug-in discussion, can anyone tell > > me what the procedure is for updating old plug-ins which were > > added by someone who is now (apparrently) unreachable? [...] > > updating old plug-ins is cool! which ones did you work on? I suppose that you can find the answer to that question by reading the last messages in the thread "Re: Warning! New user!" posted in the newsgroup comp.graphics.apps.gimp. DigitalSignature was a 1.0 plug-in that could not be compiled with 1.2, but there are many other plug-ins that have not been updated. The easiest way to store the updated plug-in in the registry seems to be to create a new entry "DigitalSignature2". But this is not very elegant. It would be nice to have a generic solution that would allow another author to store a new plug-in using the same name as an existing plug-in, if the new plug-in is for a different version of the GIMP (and if the old author cannot be contacted anymore, although the registry cannot check that by itself). We should think about a good solution to this problem before 1.4 is released, because there will be even more problems due to the transition to GTK+ 2.0... Of course, there is still the open issue of designing a good plug-in management system from GIMP 2.0, but that's less urgent. -Raphaël
