Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-22 Thread Zach Beane - MINT
[snip] > I have just send a better bug report to the bugtracker, hoping that it > will help you to fix the bugs in the scripts. However, I see that the > form on Xach's site wraps the text in a very ugly way, so my nicely > formatted bug report is now very difficult to read (#7732). I will > sen

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-22 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:01:56PM +0100, Raphael Quinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > So the current situation is: if you do not install the required Perl > > modules (especially Gtk.pm), most of the scripts do not produce any

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-19 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:01:56PM +0100, Raphael Quinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Before all of you second his suggestions I would really appreciate it if > > people looked at the current situation. (I mean: think first!) > > Marc, it is unfortunate that you are replying in a defensive mode

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-19 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Uwe Koloska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about making an extra package with all perl-modules required to run Gimp Making packages is very much a distribution-only thing. So far, the most what gimp does is support making a single source tarball, and

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-13 Thread Uwe Koloska
Raphael wrote on Mon, 13 Mär 2000: > >As an end-user, I prefer a stable application that may have less >features than another that has more features but that crashes or >complains that my system is not correctly configured. > Hey, this is, why the most of us don't use Windoze, I think ;-))) >Bac

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-13 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to note that the suggestion of Raphael is based on > assumptions that were either never true, or were true many months ago. > > Before all of you second his suggestions I would really appreciate it if > people looked at

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > I do not mind if some people (like Raphael) make suggestions based on a wrong > understanding of the situation. I am, however, astonished that even people > like Sven, who _does_ _know_ _better_ takes it so lightly: > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:29:18PM +0100, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-11 Thread Jon Winters
Marc Lehmann wrote: > > Disabling all perl-plug-ins because somebody didn't want to check the > facts is, for me, a very big decision that should not be made lightly. I would be pleased if there were a message after ./configure that said... Some errors occured during ./configure. If you woul

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-11 Thread Marc Lehmann
I just wanted to note that the suggestion of Raphael is based on assumptions that were either never true, or were true many months ago. Before all of you second his suggestions I would really appreciate it if people looked at the current situation. (I mean: think first!) Disabling all perl-plug-

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > Why can't those scripts just _not_register_themselves_ if the required > modules are not available? gimpmagick does this and the only problem > is that it has to be re-probed every time the GIMP starts. The only > reason I can think of to not install these scripts is to avoid the > delay at

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-08 Thread Adam D. Moss
Raphael Quinet wrote: > This has been suggested before, but I would like to bring it up > again... I think that it would be better to disable the installation > of all Perl-Fu scripts if any of the required modules (Gtk, PDL, > Data::Dumper, Parse::RecDescent) are not detected by the configure >

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > This has been suggested before, but I would like to bring it up > again... I think that it would be better to disable the installation > of all Perl-Fu scripts if any of the required modules (Gtk, PDL, > Data::Dumper, Parse::RecDescent) are not detected by the configure > script or, more e

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-08 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Tom Rathborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why can't those scripts just _not_register_themselves_ if the required > modules are not available? gimpmagick does this and the only problem > is that it has to be re-probed every time the GIMP starts. The only > reason I can think of

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-08 Thread Tom Rathborne
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:40:44PM +0100, Raphael Quinet wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Seth Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as PDL and Gtk goes, I'm in agreement that it shouldn't > > install those scripts with those dependencies uless those packages > > are detected. gimptool should

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-08 Thread Seth Burgess
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:07:52PM +0100, Raphael Quinet wrote: > This has been suggested before, but I would like to bring it up > again... I think that it would be better to disable the installation > of all Perl-Fu scripts if any of the required modules (Gtk, PDL, > Data::Dumper, Parse::RecDes

Re: Suggestion: disabling Perl-Fu installation if Gtk-Perl is not present

2000-03-08 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Seth Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:07:52PM +0100, Raphael Quinet wrote: > > This has been suggested before, but I would like to bring it up > > again... I think that it would be better to disable the installation > > of all Perl-Fu scripts if