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

[Radon Rosborough <radon neon gmail com>]

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

Perhaps this is a misunderstanding of the plug-in format on my part,
but why would the Python scripts be executed as standalone programs?
Wouldn't they be imported by the main GIMP runtime? I can't imagine
how the register() function call would work otherwise. Plus, the
documentation at

    https://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html

says

    In fact, you will find that the GIMP-Python scripts start with the
    line !/usr/bin/python . The GIMP extension is loaded with the
    familiar import command.

> From the Resynthesizer issue I linked:

    A better fix [than making the scripts executable] might be for
    someone to fix GIMP itself. This is a long-standing gotcha, as you
    probably found on the mailing list: many people know the issue
    exists and how to solve it. AFAIK, no other app requires python
    scripts to have executable permissions. I could be wrong, maybe
    there is a valid reason GIMP requires it.