I started off with a misunderstanding of what a content distribution system means to GIMP, after speaking to Peter Sikking (guiguru) I understand it to be:
-a process of packaging, hosting (not us, website/browser based) and then installing, where we aim to make the install, uninstall much easier than it is now. "One click install" a user clicks on a link within a browser to "http://www.x.y/package.gimppackage"; for example, it gets downloaded and the normal workflow happens as per browser/platform. For example in firefox it says would you like to have program x automatically handle this file or would you like to just download it. where x is GIMP. I assume other browsers do similar things, yet for some time I have used Firefox almost exclusively. "Security" I don't think I see the security argument anymore, we are not fundamentally changing the way scripts/plugins/other are installed just automating the process. Any security here was and still would be based on trust, short of having someone with the time/skill to analyse these things. "File format" The way I see it now is a zip/tar.gz containing package.xml and other files, where package.xml describes the contents of a package. using a custom extension to identify it is a gimp package. -where package.xml describes the name of each package, and files contained version and version of gimp required to use scripts/plugins etc but only what is required for install unistall. regards, Stephen. p.s. currently for me it is exam season, hopefully followed by summer-job season :), so as usual the winds determine the amount of time I have to spend. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
