#6 Only single file per plug-in

[Maurits Rijk]

Right now on Linux you have the Mono file (.exe) and a
wrapper script that calls this exe. This somewhat
pollutes the GIMP plug-in directory. Would be nice to
have a single file per plug-in. Maybe makeself
(http://www.megastep.org/makeself/) is an option.

[Maurits Rijk]

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[20:21] <yosh> do you make an .interp file for it ?
[20:21] <maurits> together with a new developer
[20:21] <maurits> i don't know what an .interp file is
[20:21] <yosh> you asked for the feature ;)
[20:22] <yosh> gimp 2.3 can look inside a plugin for a
binary signature, and invoke an interpreter for it
[20:22] <maurits> Ahhhhh... that future
[20:22] <maurits> yosh: you have a great memory :)
[20:23] <maurits> is this documented somewhere?
[20:23] <yosh> yeah, in the code ;)
[20:23] <maurits> cool :)
[20:24] <maurits> I'll make a note so I won't forget
[20:24] <yosh> for binary signatures it uses the same format
as the linux kernel binfmt_misc

[Maurits Rijk]

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Setting priority to low since we can only do this when GIMP
2.4 is released.

[Maurits Rijk]

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By the time we start planning GIMP# 0.15 hopefully GIMP 2.4 will be widely available.