Bug 141117

Summary:	Python Scripting for the GIMP not available
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	João S. O. Bueno Calligaris <gwidion>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	gwidion
Version:	Alpha 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description João S. O. Bueno Calligaris 2005-12-30 05:07:56 UTC

Hi,

The GIMP - ever since 2.0 version, has built in support for Python scripting.
That is enabled by specifying --enable-python at build time, which then generates the needed extension as a couple of separate binary files.

Other distributions ( ex. Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu) make this Python scripting for the GIMP available in a separate package (normally named gimp-python). There is no such package for any version of SuSE. 

I think it would be nice if GIMP-Python would be available to SuSE, either as a separate package, or  enabled by default in the GIMP package itself (it actually will be built by default on the next stable version of the GIMP - 2.4).

The only way to enable python scripts in the GIMP in SuSE currently is by building GIMP itself - which implies in getting the build enviroment and sources working, and spend quite some time on it. 

I hope you can provide it in forecoming versions of SuSE.

Regards

Comment 1 Stanislav Brabec 2006-01-05 15:28:11 UTC

Fixed in gimp, default in gimp-unstable.

Package will appear in next version and supplementary FTP.