On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 10:35:35PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 08:48:55PM +0000, Seth Golub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why would I spend time working on something without having some
> > expectation that it wouldn't just get thrown away? I have no idea
> > whether the folks in charge of this piece want this feature. If not,
> > it doesn't matter whether I implement it; I'd just be wasting my time.
>
> Making some kind of plug-in installation manager is currently in the
> planning phase.
>
> If you would help coding such a thing (preferably in C + gtk+), that would
> be great!
>
> OTOH, if you can code and just want a minimal install, why not just hack
> the lines out of configure.in that build the extra plug-ins you don't
> want? Removing these is _exactly_ the same amount of work as selecting
> which plug-ins you want and which you don't want.
Or just skip the toplevel plug-in dir, and make a little shell script to
install the plugins you want. With the 1.1.x series, you can simply
to "make GIMP_PLUGINS=" to skip. Each plugin has it's own makefile target
which you can call individually.
-Yosh
