Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp.pm??

[beppu@binq.org (John Beppu)]

[  date  ] 2001/09/05 | Wednesday | 08:20 PM
[ author ] Desmond Rivet <des_riv@sympatico.ca> 

> Can't locate Gimp.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
 
In another email, you said you wanted to add things to @INC.
One way to do this is to set the PERL5LIB environment variable
before running the Gimp.

export PERL5LIB=/opt/perl-5.7.1/lib/5.7.1/:$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib/5.7.1

Of course, you should use the directories that are appropriate
for your system.

For more information on environment variables that affect
perl, see:

    perldoc perlrun


> So I guess my question is: what the heck is Gimp.pm? 

Gimp.pm is a part of a perl extension for writing 
Gimp extensions and plug-ins.  This gives people who
don't like Scheme another way to script the Gimp using
Perl.  If you don't like Perl, I hear there's a Python one
somewhere.  (I could be wrong, though).


> What is a pm file?

PM stands for Perl Module.  A perl module is a library of
perl functions.

See http://search.cpan.org/ for more information about
perl modules.


> LibGimp-WARNING **: gimp: wire_read: unexpected EOF
> What's a wire_read? 

I've seen something like this when playing with the script-fu
server.  I think that when it says, "wire_read," it means that it
tried to read something from a socket.


> And why should there be an unexpected EOF in said wire_read?

Maybe something died prematurely (or never got started)?
I dunno.


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