On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Ingo Lütkebohle wrote: > Alexander, > > the Registry currently has support for uploading binary plugins, so those > could be downloaded over the interface as well. > > How the binary plugins arrive in the registry is a different issue. I don't > have much to offer on that front, because I can't compile for Windows and > Mac OS X. However, I could say that if we create an API-interface, > downloading and compiling a lot of plugins could probably be automated. It's a wee bit more complicated. Think of e.g. security concerns. Sure, you can sit down and analyze the code of every submitted plugin, but this solution is not scalable, and a scalable solution (as in "automated check for exploits") is likely to be expensive. Which brings us back to the same old question about money and human resources. Alexandre _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
