Re: [Gimp-user] Precompiled GIMP on macOS does not recognize plugins

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

Files in plugins are standalone programs. As such, in OSX as in all 
Unixen, they should have the executable bit.

Of course, some packaging formats preserve the flags so you don't have 
to worry about them, while others remove it (direct download of the .PY 
file).

On 03/22/18 17:14, Radon Rosborough wrote:
> > The Python files should be made executable (chmod +x ...)
> Thanks! That fixed the problem entirely. Perhaps it should be added to
> the documentation. Or maybe this is too rare of a problem for that.
> (Although probably not, given that Resynthesizer has this error in its
> packaging.)
>
> In any case, I told the Resynthesizer maintainers about it:
>    https://github.com/bootchk/resynthesizer/issues/48
>
> Thanks,
> Radon