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Packagers: core plug-ins will be installed in subdirs in GIMP 2.10.6

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Packagers: core plug-ins will be installed in subdirs in GIMP 2.10.6 Jehan Pagès via gimp-developer-list 17 Aug 12:39
Jehan Pagès via gimp-developer-list
2018-08-17 12:39:37 UTC (over 5 years ago)

Packagers: core plug-ins will be installed in subdirs in GIMP 2.10.6

Hi all!

That's a message mostly for packagers (it doesn't matter for other people): the core plug-ins will now be installed in sub-directories. I.e. the plug-in `file-webp.exe` (on Windows) will be installed under `plug-ins/file-webp/file-webp.exe`.

The `make install` step takes care of everything, but this info may matter for update process (depending on how you do it), as you might want to delete `plug-ins/file-webp.exe` (and other plug-ins directly under `plug-ins/` in previous versions of GIMP).

This is one more step towards getting fully rid of DLL hell.

This doesn't change anything for third-party plug-ins which can still be installed directly under the user config's `plug-ins/` directory though we advise against it. We advise to install user plug-ins under subdirectories as well.

Jehan

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