GIMP developers: Congratulations on 2.0, it is extremely nice. I have a couple of observations/questions regarding plug-in updates and would appreciate any feedback you might be willing to share. First, the gimp-plugin-template is set up to use a static gimp-help.xml file that always points to a web address: <?xml version="1.0"?> <gimp-help xmlns:template="http://developer.gimp.org/plug-in-template/help";> <help-item template:id="plug-in-template" ref="index.html" /> </gimp-help> In general a plug-in may not have a static web site to point to, which complicates gimp-help.xml, which must then change at install time. My solution is to supply a temporary file gimp-help.tmp: <?xml version="1.0"?> <gimp-help xmlns:p2m="file:TMPDIR/help"> <help-item p2m:id="file_ample_save" ref="file_ample_save.html" /> <help-item p2m:id="file_cif_save" ref="file_cif_save.html" /> <help-item p2m:id="file_magic_save" ref="file_magic_save.html" /> <help-item p2m:id="file_skill_save" ref="file_skill_save.html" /> <help-item p2m:id="file_skill43_save" ref="file_skill43_save.html" /> </gimp-help> and modify this at install time by adding the following two lines to .configure.in: GIMPHELPXML=$prefix/share/plugin_name sed -e "s#TMPDIR#$GIMPHELPXML#g" ./help/en/gimp-help.tmp > ./help/en/gimp-help.xml This works for me but I have not released my plug-in update to the wild yet. Does this approach make sense or does anyone have a suggestion for improving it? Recent changes in gimp-plugin-template have changed some things. First, in the file Makefile.am in the src directory, the idea of a PLUGIN_DIR seems to have gone away and the gimp-plugin-template puts the binary in: bindir = $(GIMP_LIBDIR)/plug-ins This destination seems (at least in my case) to be controlled by the contents of my gimp-2.0.pc file and the prefix in that file overrides any --prefix specification that I use when installing the plug-in. It seems to me that for general plug-in users who might not be allowed to write to the system gimplibdir the following makes more sense, and it works for me: bindir = $(prefix)/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins Can anyone let me know which of these is better and why? Also, some craziness with Makefile.in.in has rendered the whole gettext system unworkable for me. Since I don't have any translations I just ripped out the po directory and the gettext stuff from .configure.in. Is that crazy? It seems to work fine without it. Thanks in advance for any feedback and for your work on the GIMP. Steve -- Steve Lipa slipa@xxxxxxxxxxxx gpg fingerprint = 8B68 77D7 9E09 9991 C97E 25FF 6A12 D2B9 EC7D 66C1
