Re: [gtk+osx] gtk for a GNU/configure program?

[Robin R. <ro...@Mo...>]

Bob,

> I'm gonna call [*#!@##!] on that one, unless [GIMP] extensions/plugins
> run in a separate process??

No swearing on our list please.

GIMP plug-ins are indeed forked processes running as executables, not
threaded dynamically loaded libraries. In CinePaint, which inherited the
GIMP architecture, we're building plug-ins into dlls instead of executables
(without changing the plug-in code!). We haven't implemented dlls yet on Mac
OS X, just Win32 so far. GIMP maintainers say that they won't change GIMP,
that they prefer the forked process architecture to help prevent buggy
plug-ins from crashing the main GIMP executable.

Cheers,

Robin
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