On 2002-04-11 at 1718.41 +0200, Sven Neumann typed this mail: > Hi, > > Carol Spears <cspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > i have been wanting to collect all of the working plug-ins and make them > > available on my site. only plug-ins that are not already included with > > GIMP, however. > > > > if you have a lot of updated plug-ins, it should be no problem to give > > you a password so you can move the plug-ins to my site directly. > > updating old plug-ins is definitely a good idea. Storing them offsite > of registry.gimp.org is a bad idea however. Why can't we at least try > to keep things in one place? Why is everybody reinventing the wheel all > the time instead of improving existing infrastructure? > > i have been frustrated using the registry. several times, i downloaded and installed a plug-in, only to find it was already included with GIMP. lately, i would like to use snarf to get the plug-in i would like (since mozilla save seems to save something different than snarf gets) but the url to the plug-ins are not obvious. what could be so bad with a place to collect the updated plug-ins? carol
