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plug-ins, extension: goat-exercises becomes a GIMP extension. This is an extension containing a few demo plug-ins. This is good to demonstrate the extension format. It will also allow to disable these plug-ins (if at some point, one doesn't want to show these demo plug-ins anymore). And finally it deals with the fact that our plug-in code is stupid, as it just tries to find the first executable with the same name (minus extension) as the plug-in folder. This doesn't go well on Windows, where the permission system is non-existent. So our code just ends up trying to run the first file with a similar name in a plug-in folder. As the C goat-exercise contains both an exe and the C source (and the system probably returns files in alphabetic order), GIMP under Windows tries to run the C source instead of the executable (this obviously doesn't go well). We could try to do more complex logics, like not aborting if the first file run fails and try the next one in the plug-in folder. Or maybe just rename the C file to another name. But any of these is just in the end the proof that our plug-in discovery right now is just bogus. The extension system is explicit, not based on randomly trying out files. Plug-ins entry points are explicitly listed in the metadata manifest.

2020-10-08 13:58:19 +02:00

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