{"id":3732,"date":"2014-06-12T22:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T20:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=1bd472815b36853a8c6fecf93a322c79"},"modified":"2014-06-12T22:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T20:59:58","slug":"gimp-perl-release-candidate-ready-for-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"Gimp-Perl release candidate ready for testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been possible to use various scripting languages to automate GIMP for a long time. But until recently <a href=\"https:\/\/git.gnome.org\/browse\/gimp-perl\" >Perl bindings for GIMP<\/a> were considerably out of date due to lack of interest from contributors. Fortunately, a while ago Ed J started working on updating those, and now a release candidate is available for testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metacpan.org\/release\/ETJ\/Gimp-2.30_05\">Gimp-Perl version 2.30_05<\/a> is on CPAN now. It supports GIMP 2.8 and provides the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An autosave script (not installed by default, <tt>examples\/autosave2<\/tt>) will save in its own directory files that were opened and changed, then reopen them on GIMP startup; if installed, will start along with GIMP.<\/li>\n<li>A plugin registry viewer, installed by default to <tt>Filters\/Browse Plug-in Registry<\/tt>.<\/li>\n<li>A Perl console, installed by default to <tt>Filters\/Perl\/Console<\/tt>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The way to install the release candidate on Linux is:<\/p>\n<p><tt>perl -MCPAN -e \"install 'ETJ\/Gimp-2.30_05.tar.gz'\"<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>If you encounter any bugs, please report them on <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/enter_bug.cgi?product=gimp-perl\" >bugzilla.gnome.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been possible to use various scripting languages to automate GIMP for a long time. But until recently Perl bindings for GIMP were considerably out of date due to lack of interest from contributors. Fortunately, a while ago Ed J started working on &#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=3732\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-Yc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}