Re: [Gimp-user] gimp-2.9.6-x64 startup errors

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de> wrote:

> On 10/19/2017 11:12 PM, Partha Bagchi wrote:
>
> > With my builds, please DO NOT install G'MIC from somewhere else. It's
> > already built in.
> >
> > Your errors are a results of DLLs being dumped into the GIMP plugin
> folder.
> > I have no clue why you have them there.
>
> Because this is how third-party plug-ins are supposed to bundle DLL
> files they may use. Third-party plug-ins are also supposed to live in
> either a subdirectory of an existing plug-ins (2.9.x searches these by
> default now) folder or an additional folder altogether.
It is counter-productive to say that DLLs should be in the same folder as
the plugins and then to turn around and throw up an error. Don't you
think?

> Note that GIMP 2.9.x versions may show additional errors which are
> silently ignored for stable releases.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Michael
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