On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:52:29PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Neumann wrote: > >Helps for what? If libpdb is not our PDB redesign, what is it then? > > What is it? Rock? > > I may be misunderstanding what it is, but I understood that libpdb was an > extra > layer between the existing (unchanged) PDB and plug-ins which allowed things > like named parameters, and sockets rather than shm for plug-in/core > communication. Looking at the code, there's no wrapping layer at all, it's pretty much a wholesale replacement. > Aside from those 2 things, I know nothing about it except that someone is > actively working on it, and that person was under the impression that it was > scheduled for inclusion in 2.2. AFAIK, Nathan made libpdb primarily so common PDB functionality could be shared between projects, and gimp isn't the sole customer. -Yosh
