Hi, On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 08:56 -0700, Bill Skaggs wrote: > In Gimp, and other programs that use Glib, *modules* are > program-fragments that can be compiled separately from the main > application, and linked in dynamically while the program is running. > They differ from plug-ins in that once loaded they function as part of > the application, not as separate programs that communicate with the > application. The danger of modules is that if they crash, the whole > program crashes with them. The power is that they have complete > access to everything that Gimp can do. Sorry, but the latter is not true. We don't allow modules to access internals of the GIMP core. A module implements a certain class and that's it. It must not do any calls into GIMP. Thus, modules are a lot more limited than plug-ins as the plug-in API is richer and more powerful. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
