I think Jehan did some work on this in the past. Is there some progress on this? Or maybe some Windows binary to test it out? ;-)

Hi Jehan, thanks for answer. Do you have the code in some public repository to take a peek?

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 11:49 PM Jehan Pagès

Hi,

If in the past means 2/3 months ago, then yes. That's work-in-progress which I am resuming these days and I hope we should be able to have something in a few months.

Jehan

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Cool, thanks for info. I've checked the page on your blog and have some notes to metadata that would be included:

org.gimp.GIMP

I assume that "ge" value of "compare" attribute means "greater or equal". That's the possible way to do it. Here is another way how other systems deals with the same problem:
https://madewithlove.be/tilde-and-caret-constraints/ And here some related tester: https://semver.npmjs.com

I don't say one way is better than other, it's just to prevent you reinventing the wheel (in case you are not aware of this way).

2nd thing, I'm missing Tags section in metadata, it's not necessary, but nice to have - great sorting / grouping ability.

---

BTW I've also checked the code in repo (for the 1st time) and realized that it's written in C. Just out of curiosity, why is that? Historical reasons? Performance reasons? IMHO it brings huge complexity * in code itself - only emulation of OOP through GObject creates lot of code * for developers - the graphical math, theorises algorithms are difficult on its own, now here is C code that is in this age quiet hardcore to use with its non-OOP / structured paradigm ( most of devs code in OOP languages these days). Well I can definitely read and understand what's going on in the Gimp code, but it would take quiet long time to write something useful.

Uff, I have feeling (from your text) like I've been pierced by thousands of swords. I've meant no offense nor asked from you to do anything. I've only asked the reason why and from your response I've found the reason is historical. That's all I've wanted to hear and I fully understand that transition to some modern technology is pretty resource expensive or impossible (in my work me and team, we are maintaining and improving 20+ years old legacy monster code written in Delphi, so be ensured that I quiet know what you are talking about)

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 22:00 Jehan Pagès

Hi!

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:05 PM Michal Vašut wrote:

Cool, thanks for info. I've checked the page on your blog and have some notes to metadata that would be included:

org.gimp.GIMP

I assume that "ge" value of "compare" attribute means "greater or equal". That's the possible way to do it. Here is another way how other systems deals with the same problem:
https://madewithlove.be/tilde-and-caret-constraints/ And here some related tester: https://semver.npmjs.com

I am not going to change the appdata format. If you absolutely wish to go this way, you can contribute to the format specification (they are hosted at freedesktop), though to be fair, I doubt they are going to change it (it has been used for years now, and is widely spread on Linux distributions: basically all software management is based on this nowadays), nor do I see much need (as you say yourself even!).

I don't say one way is better than other, it's just to prevent you

reinventing the wheel (in case you are not aware of this way).

Well the whole point is to not reinvent any wheel, which is why I am not going to change anything here.

2nd thing, I'm missing Tags section in metadata, it's not necessary, but nice to have - great sorting / grouping ability.

That's what the `` tag is for, I believe.

---

BTW I've also checked the code in repo (for the 1st time) and realized that it's written in C. Just out of curiosity, why is that? Historical reasons? Performance reasons? IMHO it brings huge complexity

For the same reason I am not going to change the appdata format: when you contribute to a software, you don't try to change all its basics. And GIMP is indeed written in C. This has been so for 23 years now. I don't see why it is complex by the way. I have programmed in a lot of languages (many script languages as well, I even maintain some software mostly made in Python, etc.) and I find C just fine.

* in code itself - only emulation of OOP through GObject creates lot of code
* for developers - the graphical math, theorises algorithms are difficult on its own, now here is C code that is in this age quiet hardcore to use with its non-OOP / structured paradigm ( most of devs code in OOP languages these days). Well I can definitely read and understand what's going on in the Gimp code, but it would take quiet long time to write something useful.

I am not interested in discussing a port of GIMP to some language X, if not for the first reason that the work required to do such port would just block us for years (and you would not see GIMP 3 for like 10 years?! Neither the extension manager as well of course, since we'd have no time to implement it anymore, nor any of the cool new features we are bringing in nowadays).

Now I am happy to be wrong, and if someone were to port the GUI part of GIMP into some well maintained and interesting/powerful/simple language, making any graphics change easier, without any regression or feature loss, if this person contributes us a working patch tomorrow, I test it, it just works and keeps all the "promises", then I'd be the first to consider the patch for inclusion (though I would not be the only one to decide). But other than this, please don't ask us to do some work which we find not useful. I have a lot of things where I want to see GIMP improve (see my signature; we are making an animation film, as a professional studio, and my main worry is not the language of GIMP but what it can do and how, and if it is stable/fast) and spending years to change our base language is certainly not one of these.
Sorry. :-)

Jehan

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Ok, no problem...

Yeah, the best way is to do without asking, but that is problem when you don't have skill :-D that was also reason why I was asking in the first place - Gimp (its C code) is quiet hardcore and therefore there is so few devs capable (and willing) to contribute. Ok, thanks for making it little bit more clearer and have a nice Xmas holidays.

Michal

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 13:12 Jehan Pagès

Hi!

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 1:16 AM Michal Vašut wrote:

Uff, I have feeling (from your text) like I've been pierced by thousands of swords. I've meant no offense nor asked from you to do anything. I've only asked the reason why and from your response I've found the reason is historical. That's all I've wanted to hear and I fully understand that transition to some modern technology is pretty resource expensive or impossible (in my work me and team, we are maintaining and improving 20+ years old legacy monster code written in Delphi, so be ensured that I quiet know what you are talking about)

Yes sorry. My answer was definitely a bit annoyed, I should not have written it this way.
It's just that we get this question once every few months (maybe more, I don't follow all discussions/ML much) and regular requests to change to this or that language (whatever is the current fashion, javascript, python, rust…). It's just a bit annoying. Also the time I wrote this answer (10PM) probably did not help.

But in any case, I should not have written away any frustration to you. So, sorry again for this.
As you say, yeah the shorter answer is "it's historical". Let's keep it at it and pretend I have not written the previous answer. ;-) Thanks!

Jehan

P.S.: this said, I really meant it when I say I am all for genius contributions proving us wrong. For this or other topics, the best option is often to just propose a patch. Of course it's a risk and is high work (like really really; I would expect this to take many many many months full time to port every single bit), but that's also what I do when I want to contribute to some other software. I don't wait for approval, I do and hope for the best. :-)

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 22:00 Jehan Pagès

Hi!

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:05 PM Michal Vašut wrote:

Cool, thanks for info. I've checked the page on your blog and have some notes to metadata that would be included:

org.gimp.GIMP

I assume that "ge" value of "compare" attribute means "greater or equal". That's the possible way to do it. Here is another way how other systems deals with the same problem: https://madewithlove.be/tilde-and-caret-constraints/ And here some related tester: https://semver.npmjs.com

I am not going to change the appdata format. If you absolutely wish to go this way, you can contribute to the format specification (they are hosted at freedesktop), though to be fair, I doubt they are going to change it (it has been used for years now, and is widely spread on Linux distributions: basically all software management is based on this nowadays), nor do I see much need (as you say yourself even!).

I don't say one way is better than other, it's just to prevent you

reinventing the wheel (in case you are not aware of this way).

Well the whole point is to not reinvent any wheel, which is why I am not going to change anything here.

2nd thing, I'm missing Tags section in metadata, it's not necessary, but nice to have - great sorting / grouping ability.

That's what the `` tag is for, I believe.

---

BTW I've also checked the code in repo (for the 1st time) and realized that it's written in C. Just out of curiosity, why is that? Historical reasons? Performance reasons? IMHO it brings huge complexity

For the same reason I am not going to change the appdata format: when you contribute to a software, you don't try to change all its basics. And GIMP is indeed written in C. This has been so for 23 years now. I don't see why it is complex by the way. I have programmed in a lot of languages (many script languages as well, I even maintain some software mostly made in Python, etc.) and I find C just fine.

* in code itself - only emulation of OOP through GObject creates lot of code
* for developers - the graphical math, theorises algorithms are difficult on its own, now here is C code that is in this age quiet hardcore to use with its non-OOP / structured paradigm ( most of devs code in OOP languages these days). Well I can definitely read and understand what's going on in the Gimp code, but it would take quiet long time to write something useful.

I am not interested in discussing a port of GIMP to some language X, if not for the first reason that the work required to do such port would just block us for years (and you would not see GIMP 3 for like 10 years?! Neither the extension manager as well of course, since we'd have no time to implement it anymore, nor any of the cool new features we are bringing in nowadays).

Now I am happy to be wrong, and if someone were to port the GUI part of GIMP into some well maintained and interesting/powerful/simple language, making any graphics change easier, without any regression or feature loss, if this person contributes us a working patch tomorrow, I test it, it just works and keeps all the "promises", then I'd be the first to consider the patch for inclusion (though I would not be the only one to decide). But other than this, please don't ask us to do some work which we find not useful. I have a lot of things where I want to see GIMP improve (see my signature; we are making an animation film, as a professional studio, and my main worry is not the language of GIMP but what it can do and how, and if it is stable/fast) and spending years to change our base language is certainly not one of these.
Sorry. :-)

Jehan

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Happy new year,

I have 2 questions about plugin manager and since there is already thread, I will use it.

1. Will the manager support binary extensions? ... Well scripts will run anywhere (I think), but binary (compiled) extensions are platform specific and there are some devs, that only creates extensions in their platform and don't care about others. Wouldn't that (platform support) be somehow marked in metadata?

2. Will the manager support dealing with dependencies (like if the extension requires some library I will download it or if no one uses this library I will remove it) or every extension will have to contain every library it needs?

Thanks for answer.

Michal

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 15:40 Michal Vašut

Ok, no problem...

Yeah, the best way is to do without asking, but that is problem when you don't have skill :-D that was also reason why I was asking in the first place - Gimp (its C code) is quiet hardcore and therefore there is so few devs capable (and willing) to contribute. Ok, thanks for making it little bit more clearer and have a nice Xmas holidays.

Michal

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 13:12 Jehan Pagès

Hi!

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 1:16 AM Michal Vašut wrote:

Uff, I have feeling (from your text) like I've been pierced by thousands of swords. I've meant no offense nor asked from you to do anything. I've only asked the reason why and from your response I've found the reason is historical. That's all I've wanted to hear and I fully understand that transition to some modern technology is pretty resource expensive or impossible (in my work me and team, we are maintaining and improving 20+ years old legacy monster code written in Delphi, so be ensured that I quiet know what you are talking about)

Yes sorry. My answer was definitely a bit annoyed, I should not have written it this way.
It's just that we get this question once every few months (maybe more, I don't follow all discussions/ML much) and regular requests to change to this or that language (whatever is the current fashion, javascript, python, rust…). It's just a bit annoying. Also the time I wrote this answer (10PM) probably did not help.

But in any case, I should not have written away any frustration to you. So, sorry again for this.
As you say, yeah the shorter answer is "it's historical". Let's keep it at it and pretend I have not written the previous answer. ;-)
Thanks!

Jehan

P.S.: this said, I really meant it when I say I am all for genius contributions proving us wrong. For this or other topics, the best option is often to just propose a patch. Of course it's a risk and is high work (like really really; I would expect this to take many many many months full time to port every single bit), but that's also what I do when I want to contribute to some other software. I don't wait for approval, I do and hope for the best. :-)

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 22:00 Jehan Pagès

wrote:

Hi!

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:05 PM Michal Vašut wrote:

Cool, thanks for info. I've checked the page on your blog and have some notes to metadata that would be included:

org.gimp.GIMP

I assume that "ge" value of "compare" attribute means "greater or equal". That's the possible way to do it. Here is another way how other systems deals with the same problem: https://madewithlove.be/tilde-and-caret-constraints/ And here some related tester: https://semver.npmjs.com

I am not going to change the appdata format. If you absolutely wish to go this way, you can contribute to the format specification (they are hosted at freedesktop), though to be fair, I doubt they are going to change it (it has been used for years now, and is widely spread on Linux distributions: basically all software management is based on this nowadays), nor do I see much need (as you say yourself even!).

I don't say one way is better than other, it's just to prevent you

reinventing the wheel (in case you are not aware of this way).

Well the whole point is to not reinvent any wheel, which is why I am not going to change anything here.

2nd thing, I'm missing Tags section in metadata, it's not necessary, but nice to have - great sorting / grouping ability.

That's what the `` tag is for, I believe.

---

BTW I've also checked the code in repo (for the 1st time) and realized that it's written in C. Just out of curiosity, why is that? Historical reasons? Performance reasons? IMHO it brings huge complexity

For the same reason I am not going to change the appdata format: when you contribute to a software, you don't try to change all its basics. And GIMP is indeed written in C. This has been so for 23 years now. I don't see why it is complex by the way. I have programmed in a lot of languages (many script languages as well, I even maintain some software mostly made in Python, etc.) and I find C just fine.

* in code itself - only emulation of OOP through GObject creates lot of code
* for developers - the graphical math, theorises algorithms are difficult on its own, now here is C code that is in this age quiet hardcore to use with its non-OOP / structured paradigm ( most of devs code in OOP languages these days). Well I can definitely read and understand what's going on in the Gimp code, but it would take quiet long time to write something useful.

I am not interested in discussing a port of GIMP to some language X, if not for the first reason that the work required to do such port would just block us for years (and you would not see GIMP 3 for like 10 years?! Neither the extension manager as well of course, since we'd have no time to implement it anymore, nor any of the cool new features we are bringing in nowadays).

Now I am happy to be wrong, and if someone were to port the GUI part of GIMP into some well maintained and interesting/powerful/simple language, making any graphics change easier, without any regression or feature loss, if this person contributes us a working patch tomorrow, I test it, it just works and keeps all the "promises", then I'd be the first to consider the patch for inclusion (though I would not be the only one to decide). But other than this, please don't ask us to do some work which we find not useful. I have a lot of things where I want to see GIMP improve (see my signature; we are making an animation film, as a professional studio, and my main worry is not the language of GIMP but what it can do and how, and if it is stable/fast) and spending years to change our base language is certainly not one of these.
Sorry. :-)

Jehan

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