Re: problems with windows gimp

2001-01-18 Thread Sven Neumann

Hi,

Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:42:23AM +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
  (No, I don't know why duplicate PDB procedures cause strange errors
  and not just warnings. Anyway, GIMP seems to handle this situation
  better in the current gimp-1-2.)
 
 It's a long standing bug in Gimp. I would really like to change the name
 of one of my plug-ins, but this bug prevents that (it would crash Gimp)
 It's possible, but unlikely that it's actually fixed in 1.2.0, but
 generally people poke inside the PDB, throw up, tweak something until
 the crash that annoyed them stops and go home.
 I don't blame them, and I wouldn't volunteer to re-write its hairy
 logic, so I've stopped whining about it. (unless this counts :) )

Oh, you better would have whined louder and submitted a bug-report. 
I just stumpled across this issue by accident and added a few checks
for NULL pointers after 1.2.0 was out. 1.2.1 should behave better 
because of this, but I'm sure the problem wouldn't have existed in
1.2.0 if there would have been a proper bug-report earlier.

A quick test (creating a copy of one plug-in in the plug-in path) makes
me think that the problem is fixed in the current gimp-1-2 branch in 
CVS, but it would be nice if people could test it a little more. 


Salut, Sven



Re: problems with windows gimp

2001-01-17 Thread Nick Lamb

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:42:23AM +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
 (No, I don't know why duplicate PDB procedures cause strange errors
 and not just warnings. Anyway, GIMP seems to handle this situation
 better in the current gimp-1-2.)

It's a long standing bug in Gimp. I would really like to change the name
of one of my plug-ins, but this bug prevents that (it would crash Gimp)
It's possible, but unlikely that it's actually fixed in 1.2.0, but
generally people poke inside the PDB, throw up, tweak something until
the crash that annoyed them stops and go home.
I don't blame them, and I wouldn't volunteer to re-write its hairy
logic, so I've stopped whining about it. (unless this counts :) )

Nick.