Re: Photoshop plugins in Gimp on Linux using Wine!

[Dan Kegel]

On 3/31/06, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> > > Incidentally, the port of PSPI used winelib for no obvious reason.
> > > Wouldn't it have been more robust just to use Wine?
> >
> > But it is using wine, that's what Winelib does :)
> > One can try with the PE version of PSPI I suppose...
> > But this way it is fully buildable on Linux, without
> > the need to have MingW installed. This is likely
> > important for distributions.
>
> If a distribution ships this and a matching copy of Wine,
> and stays up to date, perhaps.

A worse problem is that PSPI can't be built without
a closed source, non-redistributable SDK (IIRC).
So there's not even a buildability advantage to using Winelib in this caase.
- Dan