Maurits thinks aloud

Now that we have released GIMP# 0.12 it’s time to start thinking about the features for 0.13. The current release didn’t contain many new features, apart from IronPython support. For 0.13 my plans are:

• continue working on Photoshop actions support. This has been on hold for some time, mainly because I didn’t have access to a Windows machine with Photoshop installed. My goal is to get 50 % of my action files (about 200) working in the next release.
• I already did some experiments with Visual Basic. It’s pretty straightforward to make it possible to write GIMP# plug-ins in VB.
• Move to our new house. Oh wait, this isn’t GIMP# functionality. However, it will have some impact on my already scarce time I can spend on development. So don’t expect a release within the coming 2 or 3 months.

I’m also looking forward to introducing C# 3.0 features (like lambda functions) in GIMP# but I guess right now it’s a bit too early to do so.

I just released GIMP# 0.12. Highlights for this release:

• Initial support for IronPython
• Major bugfixes
• More GIMP API coverage and corresponding unit tests

A windows installer will (hopefully) follow shortly. I also got some advice that I could use `checkinstall’ to create Debian and rpm packages. This seems worthwhile to investigate since only Mandriva  includes GIMP# at the moment.