That's potentially a problem yes, we need to look at that more closely.
Thanks for the links !!

David, I edited my previous post, I added a link:

http://www.grelf.net/grip_intro.html

Here you can find the most info about GRIP

When will this be available?

I'll post new pre-release binaries for 1.8.0_pre today, with the ability to get G'MIC plug-in 1.7.9 and 1.8.0_pre at the same time.
The registration names of the plug-in make it easy for a script to know which version it invokes :

- Current stable version 1.7.9 still uses name 'plug-in-gmic', so that won't change anything for your scripts.
- Pre-release version 1.8.0 uses name 'plug-in-gmic180', so if you want to invoke this one in your script, that will need a change.

So, at least most of the existing scripts will continue to work with current stable version 1.7.9.

I say it again, but pre-release 1.8.0 is far from being the final version. And this will be a major release with a lot of new stuffs
(you can follow the changes here : https://discuss.pixls.us/t/on-the-road-to-gmic-1-8-0).
The release is not yet planed.

Hi David.
Thank You very much for the quick update Polish translation.
The number (plug-in-gmic180) for the new GMIC does not seem like a good option - because I think will change?
Is not it better to take something general for the name of the call (plug-in-gmic-all-in)?
Is the new version is expected to save (for the faves) different (selected) options Input/Output ?

Hi MareroQ,


Thanks to you !



What we've decided today is actually to change the version number of the next version to 2.0.0.
This will be a major release, so it seems natural to jump to a major version number.
Thus, the name of the call becomes (plug-in-gmic2), and this will be the case for all versions of the 2.x.y series.



That was not something we had in mind, but I've just asked Sébastien (the developer of the new plug-in) if this is possible,
and he told me he will do it. Thanks for the suggestion

No, finally 1.8.0 won't exist, it will be replaced by 2.0.0.
And no, it will not contain the older plug-in (but the binaries for 1.7.9 will still be available from the G'MIC website).

OK, so I've posted some new pre-release binaries for upcoming version 2.0.0.
Get it from here : http://gmic.eu/files/prerelease/
It can be installed along the current stable plug-in version 1.7.9.

If I redo my favorites, will it mess up 1.7.9? Just installed the beta, but it doesn't like my favorites at the moment. Still don't want my favorites in 1.7.9 to be messed up when I go to 2.0.0x.

Yes, it will.
I suggest to let them as they are now. In the next plug-in (in Qt), there should be a mechanism to 'import' your old faves more cleanly.

OK; will just play with 1.8.0pre for bugs when I can, David. Glad you now allowed both to co-exist at the moment even though custom presets share the same paths (for the moment).

I put certain plugins in their own respective directory Graechan and add the plugins in GIMP's settings. I use to put all my plugins into one directory but then I got burned. lol

It's about the DLLs; not worth mixing plugins that include their own list of DLLs in the same directory. Most plugins use the universal DLLs and I put those plugins in GIMP's plugin direcotory under my user .GIMP.2.8 directory, but 3 plugins now (user filter, G'MIC and now G'MIC8.0) I give their own respective directory.

You can just forget version 1.8.0, as it has been replaced by number 2.0.0.
I'll try to post a new 2.0.0_pre release today with the ability to import faves from 1.7.9 and make them working as expected.

And hopefully not interfere with 1.7.9 as far as presets are concerned. I think, for the moment, the presets are shared in the same location and if you translate, it would then break them for 1.7.9. Of course, I'm just guessing.

You are guessing right for the moment, but I'll post later this day new binaries that make 2.0.0 and 1.7.9 completely independent