I can foresee the next situation with the Gimp 2.4 appearing: a good
deal of people asking, why all their scripts do not work anymore. And
most of that poor users took these scripts from the official
registry.gimp.org. Nobody is guilty, but the users suffer.
If there is a strong intent to replace script-fu by tiny-fu, there
should be some decision made in advance how to handle the upcoming
incompatibility. There can be several steps done _before_the_fact_:
1. Of course, a well visible item at the download page about the
incompatibility.
2. Anyway, short and understandable howto describing rewriting rules of
Gimp script-fu scripts into tiny-fu, even automatic translation script
if it is possible.
3. Mails sent to registry script writers with ask to rewrite their scripts.
The second item is required in any case. It is not very good to replace
things incompatible without providing users some way to overcome it. Do
not leave users with their troubles without help!
Just my 5c.
Kevin Cozens wrote:
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Is it planned to provide documentation for script-fu developers to
help them porting their stuff to 2.4, whether the switch to Tiny-Fu
occurs or not? Will there be some updated docs like
http://www.gimp.org/docs/scheme_plugin/ for beginners?
I don't have any current plans to provide any additional documentation
on porting scripts from Script-Fu to Tiny-Fu other than the basic
information I already have on the web page. I am considering adding some
extra information about dealing with the difference in how to work with
items of type STRING_ARRAY.
What I know is that In Tiny-Fu's CVS repo there is a document that
looks like a draft:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gimp-tiny-fu/tinyscheme/Manual.txt and
it's 23 months old.
That file was part of the original TinyScheme source. It has some useful
information for script writers. There is a section in the middle that is
only of interest/use to those people working on programs that want (or
do) embed TinyScheme in a larger program.
--
With respect
Alexander Rabtchevich
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