INDtanay wrote:
GIMP has now become a great software both with features and size. It has a great combination with G'MIC and many other extensions.
Is there any way to know the latest GIMP release, available for upgrade, say from 2.8.14 or ~.22 to 2.9.6 from the software itself?
May be from console or script or plug-in.
When I connect my PC/laptop to Internet and open GIMP, it shall suggest me to download new GIMP release.
Not only this, if there is upgrade in any of the scripts or plug-ins or G'MIC installed or any new feature not installed in the current software version will be notified.
Or if there is .scm or .py file already created, please let me know. I would be very pleased to download
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For Gimp itself, the real updates aren't that frequent, and there have been a few case where the updates would break things for some users. So if you are a prudent person you wait for the global round of applause before downloading.
On the PC of any active Gimp user, the scripts and plugins come from all over the place and packaged in varoius ways so in the current state having a usable script/plugin update manage is an utopy. There is work in progress to have a "script store", so that you can install and update scripts from within Gimp, but when you provide something like this you have to make sure that 1) it won't be abused to propagate malware and 2) that the contents are of acceptable quality, and this requires near-full-time qualified moderators.
But personally, I think the more useful effort in script management would not be to figure out which scripts are updatable, but which scripts can be jettisoned due to lack of use.