Thanks guys! It's nice to see different approaches
Animated path stroking has some neat features for fancy stuff.
But I prefer the way rich2005 did this, because I don't use GAP for video conversion and python is much faster.
Also if you have long path animated path stroking will throw a warning:
Your path appears to be too long and could cause GIMP to crash. Reduce the length of your path
(i.e. split into smaller segments) to allow the script to work properly.There's also python plugin called "follow-path 4" by Garcia, same guy who has created Path shape creator.
It works bit differently, uses a selection from clipboard.
What I like about it is that you get a draft preview and it has also some on-the-fly editing features.
There is newer version of GAP, 2.7 in the link below I wonder what's the difference with GAP 2.6?
Not a huge GAP fan, tried the barber pole tutorial several times but it does not seem to work out.
Either it's buggy or I have bird brain.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-packagers/files/